Proust Questionnaire: oldie-goldie's answers

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:44:00 UTC oldie-goldie (99) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be sitting in the cold sleet with a crushed spirit
Where would you like to live?: Either where I am or in Ireland
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have the ability to balance what you want to do and what you need to do and get it all done impecably
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The Count of Monte Cristo
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Daniel and Esther from the Bible
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Esther, Agatha Christie
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Eowyn from the Lord of the Rings
Your favorite painter?: Rembrant, Norman Rockwell,
Your favorite musician?: Shumann, Hyden, Handel, Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?: Integrity, Honesty, Gentleness, Passion,
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Determination, Kindness, Happiness
Your favorite virtue?: Love
Your favorite occupation?: Drawing, Writing, Dreaming, playing sports
Who would you have liked to be?: Esther, one of the Founding Fathers, Agatha Christie
Your most marked characteristic?: shyness, stubborn, impatient
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyaty
What is your principle defect?: Not knowing what I should be doing, shyness
What would you like to be?: a Writer, an Artist, or a Lawyer, or a Representative in Congress
What is your favorite color?: Red
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Alexandre Dumas, Rex Stout, Clive Cussler
Who are your favorite poets?: I do not like poetry
What are your favorite names?: Eden, Blake,
What is it you most dislike?: people who have too high an oppinion of themselves and will not listen to anyone else
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Stalin, Mosolinni, Sadam Hussein, Castro
What event in military history do you most admire?: The seige of Constantinopole
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Being able to play the Piano really well, to be a really good artist, to be a genius at writing, to be very athletic so I could go to the olympics, to be able to public speak
What is your motto?: I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength. Phillipians 4:13

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