That they be intelligent and engaged.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your greatest fear?
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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 don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗
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They want to leave the party the same time I do.
Being there through thin and thin. That’s friendship treasured.
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View profile →Short-term memory.
Wow! Like, the way people mess up language. I mean, it makes me crazy, y’know?
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
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