We go back from whence we came.
What happens when we die?
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What is your worst intellectual habit?
Craft & work
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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Whom do you read even though you disagree with them?
Attention & the world
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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I have never been able to become an atheist and, even though I know it is completely irrational and cannot be backed up, I think when I die I’m going to glory.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2026 source ↗
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View all 51 →I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
Earthly life is merely the infancy of our soul. What comes after physical death is, I imagine, like returning home.
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View profile →I’ve a deplorable tendency to become entrenched in my own prejudices: If I dislike an artist, an art form, or an idea (jazz, ballet, certain kinds of fiction) it is extremely difficult to get me to change my mind, and all evidence presented to the contrary will be discarded and very likely mocked. Of course, nobody suffers but me.
Impatient, ambitious and happy.
I often hate-read the Daily Mail. It’s the worst of media and the worst of mankind distilled into one publication and in some ways it feels a moral duty to be familiar with it. Too often we all bolt ourselves into an echo chamber, which I think lacks courage, and can lead to a kind of intellectual conceitedness.
I’m monstrously judgmental. It’s like talking to the pope.
Not being loved.
Every single morning the sun comes up and you get to try again.
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