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.
What do you value most in your friends?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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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.
Their responsibility to the friendship.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2012 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.
Their willingness to have me as a friend.
Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
Knowing they are there for you.
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View profile →That I’ll never work again.
Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
I think when we were doing The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That was the first time that I was able to, on a regular basis, be funny.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
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