Any unread book a friend bought me.
Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
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What is the best advice you have ever received?
Time & hindsight
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What scares you about getting older?
Time & hindsight
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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How would you like to die?
Death & what remains
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What is this guilt of which you prate, Earthling?
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View all 35 →All of them. I’m not someone who can sit down and read – I wish I could.
Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
Because it’s in one of my songs, War and Peace.
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View profile →In 1972, by Farley Mowat, after I’d had a modest success: “Now you’re a target, and people will shoot at you.” Which is not about how to write, but about some of the consequences of having done so.
Long, lingering dementia, followed by death from choking on a fishbone.
Lazy, anxious, and distracted.
The only way out is through.
Anonymous. She’s working to make the planet greener.
Of a painless disease, with a month’s warning, on a spring day, with some good news in hand.
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