Inability to listen.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
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View all 202 →Lying. Let’s not call it “untruthful.” Or “factually inaccurate.” I don’t even call it bullshit, because I like bulls. And bulls need to shit. So you can’t hold that against them. Let’s call it what it is: lying.
Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.
The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
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They take my calls.
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That I’ll die worrying.
Standing up while eating.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
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