Tuesday

Proust Questionnaire

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Great food, great friends.
What is your greatest fear? Wasted time.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Indeciciveness.
What is the trait you most deplore in others? Passive-aggressiveness, ignorance.
What is your greatest extravagance? Time and music.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Temperance.
On what occasion do you lie? When I'm halfway through telling a story and see no end in sight.
What do you most dislike about your appearance? Very little.
Which living person do you most despise? ___________________
What is the quality you most like in a man? Charm, wit and passion. Self-depricating.
What is the quality you most like in a woman? Charm, wit and passion. Self-promoting.
Which talent would you most like to have? A trained though slightly imperfect voice.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? 2 more inches plz.
Where would you most like to live? 25 Bond Street, New York, NY.
What is your most treasured possession? My integrity (tarnished), my book collection (full of imposters) and my Balenciaga jacket (heavily worn).
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Suburbs. (Runner up: mental/emotional/physical limbo)
What is your favorite occupation? Freelance ______________.
What is your most marked characteristic? Wit, spontaneity, anxiety.
What do you most value in your friends? Talent, humour, honesty, loyalty.
Who are your favorite writers? Fran Leibowitz, Oscar Wilde, Brett Easton Ellis & Henry James.
Who is your hero of fiction? They're all imaginary.
What are your favorite names? Parker, Madison.
What is it that you most dislike? Uninterested people, Mac color-wheel cursor.
How would you like to die? In a feat of epic grandeur.
What is your motto? Says who? (also "be yourself")