A sense of humor and/or the ability to use a toilet correctly.
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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.
They’ll help me dump a body off the turnpike.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 July 2023 source ↗
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Their loving forbearance.
I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
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View profile →Best to leave things alone. Pull things out, it all comes down. I’m Jenga like that.
Opening day of The Empire Strikes Back, 86th Street Loews.
Enough with the constant smiling.
I’m walking down the street angrily muttering to myself and then I run into a neighbor or former coworker and they catch me in this moment of private-public expression. It’s nice to be seen sometimes.
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