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What do you fear most?

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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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Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗
Andrea Bocelli
I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2024 source ↗

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