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.
A willingness to come uptown.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2011 source ↗
Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
I love that my true friends don’t think of me as that Judy, but as the Judy they’ve known for years, a woman, like them. And I love their senses of humor.
Being able to share a confidence.
Cathy Rigby. She was really good in that stage version of Peter Pan. No joke.
A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.
People who are proud of their ignorance.
Anywhere, during the 2 to 24 hours after a successful joke.
Child, loss or damage thereof.
Procrastination.
Anjelica Huston, Gina Lollobrigida, Rachel Maddow, Sharon Stone, Jason Sudeikis, Steve Buscemi
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