When they ruin my story because they think theirs is better, so butt in before I’ve finished mine.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
People who are proud of their ignorance.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2011 source ↗
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Other people’s decorating, if I feel they’ve missed an opportunity and just decorated in that wet-cardboard, modern-grey thing. That’s a life not properly lived.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
The urge to be unpleasant to waitstaff in restaurants.
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A willingness to come uptown.
Child, loss or damage thereof.
Anywhere, during the 2 to 24 hours after a successful joke.
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