Compassion. Wisdom. Wit. The delicate balance of knowing when I need tough love and when I need support. Plus, call me crazy, but I’m also partial to friends who don’t surreptitiously record our calls.
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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.
Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2015 source ↗
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They can take the piss out of me and it still feels like wisdom and loyalty.
They take my calls.
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A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
Pope Francis. He’s going with the original program. He may not be perfect, but he’s trying.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
I would laugh more. I don’t laugh enough.
I can be a huge asshole, not very nice. Doesn’t happen very often, but when it happens, it’s not attractive.
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