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.
Being able to share a confidence.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗
I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
Humor and honesty. And, like me, they always think the unnecessary last drink is a great idea.
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
The inability to listen.
The delivery room when my children and grandchildren were born.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
The entire family being healthy, being on the set of Barry, and a rainbow trout on my line.
I can be pedantic at times.
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