What is the trait you most deplore in others?

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Recorded Martha Stewart said elsewhere, not written here
Indecision and wishy-washiness.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗

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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen English interior designer and television personality
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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 October 2022 source ↗

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