Kindness and laughter. If someone makes me laugh, I’m halfway in love.
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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.
That they don’t die on me.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2003 source ↗
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View all 65 →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.
The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.
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