The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Being untruthful.
I find it really interesting the way people are drawn to power, usually male power, sometimes in its dark mode. I wonder what they get from it. My experience of bastards is that there is very little material benefit gained from being in their company, though you feel there might be, any minute. Or you get something for a while and then the polarity switches. It’s a huge con. Trump made the mechanism clear – in this, I think he is a timely figure.
Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift into self-pity.
Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
That I’ll die worrying.
They take my calls.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Standing up while eating.
Charlie Munger, Julian Lennon, Frank Bowling, Philippa Gregory, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Griffin
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