I was always a watcher.
The Guardian, The Guardian, 27 December 2013 source ↗
The question
What do you value most in your friends?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.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist and essayist
What makes life worth living are the saints I meet-they can be long-time friends or someone I meet on a street. They find a way to behave decently in an indecent society.
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.
The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.
Ina Garten
Cookery writer and shop owner
That they want to be with me.
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I loathe orthodoxy of any sort.
I was always a watcher.
Sharper knives.
I was always a watcher.
People laughing at me, which is terrible for someone who makes a living out of making people laugh.
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