What is the trait you most deplore in others?

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Hugh Grant said elsewhere, not written here
Telling me the menu is only accessible through the QR code.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2024 source ↗

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DJ Khaled
People who do not love. If you are not loving, you are not living. Why wouldn’t you love? What’s the problem?

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2016 source ↗

Luise Rainer
To be dishonest. Sometimes people have to be dishonest in order not to hurt, but if someone is basically dishonest, that is a different matter.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗

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Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.

Recorded The Talks, 7 May 2025 source ↗

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