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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:26:49 UTC LB Perkins (42) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Insanity
Where would you like to live?
On a small well-kept farm in Northern California or Central America
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Reading a novel in the sunshine
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Addiction, anger and fear
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Jay Gatsby, Harry Potter, Mr. Darcy
Who are your favorite characters in history?
George Washington, Gorbachev and Princess Diana
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Novelist Sue Monk Kidd and mothers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Eustacia Vye from Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native and Edna Pontellier from Kate Chopin's the Awakening
Your favorite painter?
Edward Hopper
Your favorite musician?
Bono
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence, humor, tenderness, openness, competence
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Intelligence, humor, acceptance
Your favorite virtue?
Forgiveness
Your favorite occupation?
Reading, baking, writing
Who would you have liked to be?
Audrey Hepburn
Your most marked characteristic?
Honesty and dark hair
What do you most value in your friends?
Depth and hilarity
What is your principle defect?
Temper
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Losing one of my children
What would you like to be?
Successful novelist
What is your favorite color?
Periwinkle blue
What is your favorite flower?
Peony
What is your favorite bird?
Wood stork
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Sue Monk Kidd, Kathleen Norris, Kate Chopin, Jane Austen, JK Rowling
Who are your favorite poets?
ee cummings and Rumi
Who are your heroes in real life?
Women unafraid to leap for their dreams
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Suffragettes
What are your favorite names?
MacCray, Benjamin and Becket
What is it you most dislike?
Root beer, temper, manipulation and menstruation
What historical figures do you most despise?
Adolph Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?
Washington crossing the Delaware
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Self control, universal compassion and musical ability
How would you like to die?
At peace in God's love
What is your present state of mind?
Reaching
What is your motto?
You'll never know if you don't try

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