The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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Painter, draughtsman, printmaker and photographer
That they don’t give way quickly.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2013 source ↗
Their inability to deal with my disorganisation.
People not remembering who I am.
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.
Weakness – not to be confused with sensitivity, which is a superpower.
That I give way too quickly.
I thought I was a hedonist at the time, but when I look back I was always working. I am always working. I work every day. I never give parties; I never gave them.
To get the most out of the world around you you’ve got to really look hard. Most people out walking in the woods don’t really look. They just glance around. They scan. Before I start a painting I spend a lot of time looking and thinking, I go out in the car and pull a chair out of the boot and sit in the woods. I sit there and smoke and just look.
Seth Meyers, Andrew O’Hagan, Gayle King, Rita Moreno, Omid Djalili, Fay Ripley
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