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Having a great fear.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 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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Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
The concept of eternity.
To be stuck in the past.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Violent death. Death generally.
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View profile →My biggest disappointment would be living with disappointment. What a burden to be shackled to. I would be truly disappointed if I didn’t (as the song says) pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.
Like falling – endlessly – and then discovering you have wings.
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
As a kind person who cared for others.
That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.
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