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Picking their nose and eating it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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Lolita Chakrabarti
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Lack of empathy.
Not being honest.
Ingratitude. Taking advantage of others.
Anne Enright
Novelist and short-story writer
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.
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Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
A single-malt whisky.
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