That they don’t die on me.
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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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.
Humor, perspective, and selective honesty.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2017 source ↗
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View all 65 →It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
Their loving forbearance.
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That they won’t let me hide.
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View profile →I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.
Being at home with Brian and the dogs.
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