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Indecision and wishy-washiness.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗
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Two-faced phony-baloneys.
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I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
Right now, in the present. I have a short memory.
I’m a very fearless person.
Any type of indecision.
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