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The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
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Joyce Carol Oates
Novelist, short story writer and essayist
Sometimes, it is the possibility of loneliness. Other times, it is the possibility of never being alone, having no privacy, being under the control of another.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
To be completely alone.
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I’m getting closer all the time.
Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.
“You can’t play Maxim de Winter with ginger hair.”
My rational brain doing battle with my emotional brain.
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