The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Loved you in Dallas.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
“You’re selfish.” It was a friend.
I was called the N-word in Romford, by someone stepping off a train as I was getting on.
“Try this, you’ll love it.”
We’ve run out of champagne.
Two ears. I am deaf in my right ear and I’ve just developed musical tinnitus – it’s not an interesting tune and you don’t choose it. I had three weeks of Hare Krishna night and day. Then it changed to Rod Stewart’s Sailing.
It is all there is.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
People who think they’re always right.
Haven’t done it yet.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
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