What do you value most in your friends?

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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.

Recorded Michael Cunningham said elsewhere, not written here
Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 November 2023 source ↗

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Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Recorded His own pledge letter, written on joining the Giving Pledge in 2010, The Giving Pledge, 2010 source ↗
Rafael Nadal Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
The word says it all. To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 2010 source ↗
Terry Gross Radio interviewer
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2012 source ↗

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