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.
Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 November 2023 source ↗
Being there for each other during good times and bad.
Discretion and good cheer.
Deep and complex thoughts delivered with a wicked sense of humor.
A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
I’m chronically late. It’s magical thinking: I actually believe I can take a shower and get dressed in three minutes, that the train will be pulling into the station the moment I arrive….
Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin, Gayle King, Amy Poehler, David Hyde Pierce, Little Richard
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