Proust Questionnaire: alliswell's answers

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On Tue, 22 Jan 13 20:37:00 UTC alliswell (62) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: living in fear
Where would you like to live?: spain
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: surrounded by beauty, music, good food and warm people.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: trying to take over and fix things
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: those that find a way in the face of adversity
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Carrie Chapman Catt, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, nelson mandella
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: michele obama, Joe biden,
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those that fight against oppression
Your favorite painter?: picasso
Your favorite musician?: beatles, mozart, phillip glass, too many to answer
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty, laughter, morals and intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Honesty, laughter, morals and intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty, laughter, morals and intelligence
Your favorite occupation?: traveling, exercising, reading, listening to music, watching movies
Who would you have liked to be?: myself only starting with my current knowledge at 22
Your most marked characteristic?: loyalty
What do you most value in your friends?: honesty and adaptability
What is your principle defect?: taking over and trying to fix things
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: never to have found my husband
What would you like to be?: myself but more organized and balanced
What is your favorite color?: the interplay of all colors
What is your favorite flower?: all those with a fragrance
What is your favorite bird?: hummingbird or pelican
Who are your favorite prose writers?: too many to write, chaucer, irving, dostyevsky, marquez
Who are your favorite poets?: shakespeare, tennyson, wordsworth, ginsberg, susuki roshi
Who are your heroes in real life?: nelson mandela, dali lama, michele obama
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Carrie Chapman Catt, mother theresa, rosa parks
What are your favorite names?: conner and camile
What is it you most dislike?: cruely and violence
What historical figures do you most despise?: george w bush, cheney, hitler, stalin, herbert hoover
What event in military history do you most admire?: signing of the bill of rights
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: patience
How would you like to die?: peacefull
What is your present state of mind?: happy and satisfied
What is your motto?: be grateful

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