Sally Symons: Winston-Salem, NC
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Living in a place that I love, surrounded by friends and family, doing the work that I love and allows me to be creative every day
2. What is your greatest fear? Living through the deaths of people I love
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Selfishness
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Obsession with status, people who are starved for attention and not genuine
5. Which living person do you most admire? My little sister, Anne
6. What is your greatest extravagance? Polaroid film, good wine, books, clothes... my entire life is my greatest extravagance
7. What is your current state of mind? Ambitious, ready for whatever’s next
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Chastity?
9. On what occasion do you lie? In a bar, preferably one in a foreign country, when someone is trying to start conversation with me, the lies just tend to come rolling out. And sometimes in French.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? Bad skin
11. Which living person do you most despise? Hatred is a waste of time
12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Honesty, sense of humor, kindness
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Intelligence, wit
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “Get a grip on your life, woman.”
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? Language, books... those are the whats
16. When and where are you happiest? Sitting outside drinking wine or coffee with friends and laughing until my stomach hurts
17. Which talent would you most like to have? The ability to play an instrument
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My impatience
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Academic success, working my way through the creative writing program
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? A cute fluffy dog
21. Where would you most like to live? Paris, in a great old, beautifully decorated house
22. What is your most treasured possession? My dog, my blankie, the ring my grandmother gave me for high school graduation
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Living in regret
24. What is your favorite occupation? creative maniac
25. What is your most marked characteristic? Delighting in organization
26. What do you most value in your friends? Humor, kindness
27. Who are your favorite writers? Jack Kerouac, William Faulkner, JD Salinger, Joyce Carol Oates, Ernest Hemingway, David Sedaris, etc.
28. Who is your hero of fiction? Caddy Compson, Sal Paradise
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Sylvia Plath, maybe not the suicide part, though
30. Who are your heroes in real life? My grandmother and grandfather
31. What are your favorite names? Unique ones, just as long as they aren’t double names or family names that should never be used as first names… i.e. I will never have a daughter named ‘Winbourne’
32. What is it that you most dislike? Bad manners
33. What is your greatest regret? Having wasted time worrying or wishing for things
34. How would you like to die? Content
35. What is your motto? Check the facts but trust your instincts
I think there will be some serious trends in our answers..."wit" and "intelligence" to be specific. With that said, this is a well-rounded insight into your brain. Marcel would be proud.
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