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The concept of eternity.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
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Shakin' Stevens
Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter
A world without music.
I’m not fond of snakes.
Roger Ebert
Film critic
Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
I’m a very fearless person.
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