What do you value most in your friends?

65 answers answered between 2001 and 2026 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 54 Politics and public life 5 Business and finance 2 Sport 4

Read by age Any age Before thirty 2 In their thirties 1 In their sixties 6 Seventy and beyond 10

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Rafael Nadal Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024

The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2010 source ↗

Pelé Brazilian footballer; three-time World Cup winner

Loyalty. Most of my friends have been around me for decades.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2014 source ↗

Megan Rapinoe United States international footballer, 2006–2023

Humor and honesty. And, like me, they always think the unnecessary last drink is a great idea.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2020 source ↗

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball player and author

Loyalty. Not fawning, but a loyalty based on our shared love and history that fosters compassion and forgiveness.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 27 August 2020 source ↗

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