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.
They take my calls.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 April 2017 source ↗
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
Discretion and good cheer.
Discretion and love of New Orleans—my favorite city. These two go hand in hand.
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
That I’ll die worrying.
Standing up while eating.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Jodie Foster, Harrison Ford, Kevin Bacon, Warren Buffett, Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling
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