The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Enough with the constant smiling.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2023 source ↗
Cruelty, and also general rudeness and unkindness. I’ve always told my children: Don’t ever find entertainment in someone else’s discomfort.
Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!
Careless cruelty.
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.
Opening day of The Empire Strikes Back, 86th Street Loews.
They’ll help me dump a body off the turnpike.
I’m walking down the street angrily muttering to myself and then I run into a neighbor or former coworker and they catch me in this moment of private-public expression. It’s nice to be seen sometimes.
Best to leave things alone. Pull things out, it all comes down. I’m Jenga like that.
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