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 ↗
Seeing and being seen.
They want nothing but friendship.
Knowing when to show up and when to go home.
They’ll help me dump a body off the turnpike.
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….
The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
Rita Moreno, Lily Tomlin, Gayle King, Amy Poehler, David Hyde Pierce, Little Richard
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