What is the trait you most deplore in others?

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Entitlement, arrogance, and bigotry.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2023 source ↗

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Joyce Carol Oates Novelist, short story writer and essayist
Amid so much blatant cruelty in our political situation, such shocking indifference to the lives & welfare of those living at the margins of an affluent society, I think it must be this institutionalized cruelty, & the hypocrisy that surrounds it. “Making America great again”—for whom? Wealthy white people? The word “deplore” is particularly relevant here.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2018 source ↗
Bryan Adams Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
People who make you wait around for them.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 December 2022 source ↗

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