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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People who punch down.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2025 source ↗
Weakness – not to be confused with sensitivity, which is a superpower.
Unwillingness to change.
Those who create the doom.
Selfishness and cruelty.
Cooking out with my closest friends and laughing until we are crying.
My niece, Petra Janney, who got her pilot’s license to rescue animals from rural kill shelters and have them placed with different pet adoption agencies.
This year's a pretty good year.
Those who are both loyal and can cook.
I wish I always had the right word in the right moment at the right time and not two hours later in my car going home.
Oh, I have a long list. You should ask me what I like about myself—that list is much shorter.
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