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.
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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’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗
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Their loving forbearance.
Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.
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In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
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