Proust Questionnaire: aetilson's answers

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On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:22:36 UTC aetilson (41) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lie when the truth would serve you better
Where would you like to live?: Where I live currently - small town in Ohio
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To experience joy
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Cursing and procrastinating
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Owen Meany, Howard Roarke
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Single mothers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Anna Karenina, Anne of Green Gables
Your favorite painter?: Paul Klee
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humility and confidence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Honesty and tenderness
Your favorite virtue?: To thine own self be true
Your favorite occupation?: Writer
Who would you have liked to be?: A Librarian
Your most marked characteristic?: My openness
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: My lack of focus
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have died never having been sober.
What would you like to be?: I don't know
What is your favorite color?: Navy Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Tulips
What is your favorite bird?: The sparrow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: John Irving, F.Scott Fitzgerald
Who are your favorite poets?: Mary Oliver, Rainer Maria Rilke
Who are your heroes in real life?: I appreciate the nameless, faceless people who do service work every single day without recognition
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra
What are your favorite names?: Anne, Charlotte, and Luke
What is it you most dislike?: Hypocrisy and rejection
What historical figures do you most despise?: People who have committed acts of violence for selfish reasons - Hitler and so on
What event in military history do you most admire?: Revolutionary War
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: acceptance
How would you like to die?: old
What is your present state of mind?: scattered
What is your motto?: "Do unto others" is failsafe

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