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What is your greatest fear?

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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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Margaret Atwood Novelist, poet and critic
That human beings will follow their stupid and greedy side, rather than their smart side, and go down the plughole. We’re circling the rim.
Recorded Helen Bownass, Five Minute Philosopher, Stylist, 15 October 2019 source ↗
Any misfortune involving our kids. Also, I have recurring nightmares that involve being chased by people or being attacked by scary animals.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2026 source ↗

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