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What trait do you most dislike in other people?

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Yogi Berra Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees
Talking too much.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2010 source ↗
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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 September 2024 source ↗

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