Availability. Just kidding. Character.
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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.
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗
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A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
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With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
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