Proust Questionnaire: Katie's answers

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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:40:20 UTC Katie (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be unable to exist without the approval of others
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere quirky, gothic and peaceful, surrounded by nature
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have several dogs, land, a nice house and peace of mind
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Self-pity, laziness, and ocassionally, guilt.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those of the unbreakable will and infallible character
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Dante, Lincoln, Plato and Winston Churchill, Justice Black
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Intelligent women who live their lives to the fullest and on the edge
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The bitchy ones
Your favorite painter?: Whistler or Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Chopin
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, trustworthiness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, Humour, Ambition
Your favorite virtue?: Truth
Your favorite occupation?: Drawing, thinking, hiking
Who would you have liked to be?: I would have liked to have been Rafael (the painter, not the ninja turtle.)
Your most marked characteristic?: The need to be liked or, moreover, to be seen as worldly
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty and a sense of humour
What is your principle defect?: I don't understand everything
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose my mind
What would you like to be?: I should rather like to be a good bottle of scotch, to be drunk only on special occasions
What is your favorite color?: A goodm solid, verdant green
What is your favorite flower?: The Hibiscus
What is your favorite bird?: the owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: George Will, Anna Quindlin
Who are your favorite poets?: Dante (I don't know an especial lot about poetry)
Who are your heroes in real life?: Winston Churchill
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Calamity Jane, Amelia Earhart
What are your favorite names?: The ones that aren't swears
What is it you most dislike?: Mayonaise, poor grammar and cold fries
What historical figures do you most despise?: not necessarily those who lied, but those accepted those lies while knowing they were such
What event in military history do you most admire?: The 300 Spartans
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Iron Will and limitless talent
How would you like to die?: Painlessly, especially life is sometimes so full of it
What is your present state of mind?: Irritated that Scalia and Roberts are continuing to weigh so heavily on my mind
What is your motto?: Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem (horace)

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