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The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2024 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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View all 256 →I become very anxious if I think I’ve hurt someone.
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
Tim Peake
British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
Running out of options.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
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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.
Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
Telling me the menu is only accessible through the QR code.
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