I like all my friends for different reasons, so it’s hard to pick one quality I value most highly overall.
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What is your greatest fear?
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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.
Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2012 source ↗
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Being there for each other during good times and bad.
Humor and honesty. Realness. No bullshit.
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View profile →Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
My agent Mort Janklow, Sidney Poitier, and Barbara Walters.
I wish I were braver, although I try. I work too hard and don’t play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough “fun.”
The first 10 years of my marriage, when my children were small.
Healthy, happy children. A wonderful, loving partner with whom to share my life.
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