They want to leave the party the same time I do.
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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.
Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 February 2018 source ↗
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Knowing when to show up and when to go home.
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Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
My sister, who manages to see the positive in any situation.
Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
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