The question
What is your greatest fear?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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Still nuclear annihilation.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗
That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
My children dying before me.
That I’ll die worrying.
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama.
I don’t remember the womb, so … my first taste of ice cream? First night in a girl’s bed: happy.
Bill Maher, Derek Jeter, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Bear Grylls, Melissa Etheridge, Danielle Steel
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