The question
Which quality in your friends matters most to you?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 ↗
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
Seeing and being seen.
Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
They treat me as a regular person.
At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
My competitive side, the one that keeps score.
Elaine May, Rachel Maddow, Laurie Metcalf, Kevin Bacon, Monica Lewinsky, Lily Tomlin
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