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The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
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What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
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View all 193 →The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
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American step dancer
I always try to see the good. I never look for the bad.
Lack of empathy and compassion.
Craig Charles
English actor
Selfishness and cruelty.
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A baseball pitcher.
I admire the mother of my children a great deal, because she’s interesting, smart and funny.
By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
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