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.
Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2010 source ↗
Humor, perspective, and selective honesty.
The ability to be themselves rather than hiding behind a mask.
Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.
Their humor and that they are smarter than I, but not by too much.
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time. But I think I am pretty happy now.
Sister Alice Marie Quinn, who runs St. Vincent Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles.
To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
Serially telling endless boring jokes and sexism and racism and homophobia (they often go together).
Laziness and procrastination.
Terry Gross, Gina Lollobrigida, Cecile Richards, Megan Rapinoe, Little Richard, John Malkovich
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