Honesty. Tell me the truth, even if it hurts.
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What is your greatest fear?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That they can pick up where we left off.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗
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Judy Blume
Novelist
I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
That they be intelligent and engaged.
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
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Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
My competitive side, the one that keeps score.
Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
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