Danielle Steel
Novelist
Loyalty, kindness, honesty, trustworthiness, reliability.
What do you value most in your friends?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Identity & self
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What is your greatest fear?
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.
Discretion and good cheer.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2012 source ↗
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If I haven’t seen them in years and yet can pick up conversation like it was yesterday.
That they don’t die on me.
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View profile →I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Becoming dickish.
Now. My life is better with every year of living it.
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
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