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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗
I look at my nephew, who is five years old and in a perpetual state of bliss; I imagine that’s what I was like when I was five. That’s not to say I am unhappy now; I was on top of the world walking through a park to work this morning.
I think you can be happy every day, if you are in the flow.
I am happiest right now. Things are going really well – my professional life, my personal life, my family life.
I remember going to my auntie Pauline’s house in winter when I was eight or nine and she made me a roast beef sandwich. I ate it and fell asleep next to a fire. I felt like a cat, fed and left to nap.
Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
Still nuclear annihilation.
Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama.
Adam Kay, Bill Maher, Chris McCausland, Samuel L Jackson, Ricky Gervais, Daniel Clowes
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