The question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Dishonesty and insincerity.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2021 source ↗
Never picking up the check.
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.
I don’t like false or opportunistic people.
When a person is judgmental without realizing that they are the thing they detest in others.
The rare moment I don’t believe in myself enough.
The greatest fear I can remember is coming back from WW II and being amazed that I was more afraid to audition for a job than I was flying 52 missions.
Waking up in the morning is as perfect as anything gets.
Zack Polanski, Laverne Cox, Terry Gross, Gina Lollobrigida, Leona Lewis, Sarah Hadland
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