Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗
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.
Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗
Honesty, trustworthiness, and a deep understanding of emotions.
Being there for each other during good times and bad.
Seeing and being seen.
They’ll help me dump a body off the turnpike.
Barack Obama has shown us how to be a politician guided by intelligence, integrity, and compassion.
Being surrounded by my friends and family. Just listening to them interacting, laughing, sharing. It is the culmination of everything I could have hoped for.
Laziness. After 30 years of being a disciplined athlete with an intensely tight schedule, I still can’t forgive myself for letting things slide.
Years ago, before I had my current manager, I was taken advantage of by people I’d trusted with my finances. That’s made me especially sensitive to the prospect of financial ruin. I’m constantly advising young athletes to be vigilant when it comes to whom you trust with your finances.
I had self doubts when I was a freshman in high school. I was 14 years old and not very mature, and there were a few incidents in my freshman year. I learned in a very competitive environment. The high school environment that I played in was very intense, and I learned how to be stoic and go out and compete.
Dishonesty. It destroys relationships. It’s something celebrities especially have to guard against because people are prone to tell you what they think you want to hear rather than the truth.
Megan Rapinoe, Rafael Nadal, Pelé, Eugene Levy, Judy Blume, Allison Janney
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