The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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An arbitrary contrarian.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗
The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else, just to make themselves feel important it really gets me mad.
People who punch down.
Judgmental without investigation.
Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
Lack of purpose.
Chuck Feeney (the James Bond of philanthropy).
Making trails and building a tree house.
Playing catch with my son Noah at Fenway Park.
John Cleese, Meghann Fahy, Rafael Nadal, Anthony Hopkins, Sharleen Spiteri, Herman Wouk
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