The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
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Lack of self-criticism.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2014 source ↗
A lack of generosity. It can take so many forms—it doesn’t just have to do with money—so I’m always shocked when people can’t muster any at all.
An arbitrary contrarian.
I always try to see the good. I never look for the bad.
People who can’t read my mind.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
Self-criticism.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
Douglas Stuart, Joyce Carol Oates, Rosalind Eleazar, Indira Varma, Charlotte Church, Hugh Grant
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