Smarts, kindness, decency, honesty, integrity, humor. Really do love a good cook! Our group of friends has been friends for a long time.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2021 source ↗
What do you value most in your friends?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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.
That they can pick up where we left off.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗
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View all 65 →Unselfishness. I like to surround myself with people who are kind and have feelings for others and their problems.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 November 2001 source ↗
That they be intelligent and engaged.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 April 2015 source ↗
Judy Blume
Novelist
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.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 April 2023 source ↗
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View profile →Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗
My competitive side, the one that keeps score.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
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