The question
Which quality in your friends matters most to you?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.
That they can pick up where we left off.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 June 2013 source ↗
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.
Humor, perspective, and selective honesty.
A willingness to come uptown.
That they be intelligent and engaged.
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
My competitive side, the one that keeps score.
At sunset or under the stars on the dock of our lake house just being with my family and pals.
Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Megan Rapinoe, Little Richard, Terry Gross, Gina Lollobrigida
Search the directory for somebody in particular.