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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My lips are sealed.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2003 source ↗
That I would lose her.
Climate change, duh.
That we will be remembered as a people who locked our fellow citizens in cages and who believe that some people are rich and some people are poor because “it’s their nature” and that racism and poverty are inevitable parts of the order of things; that M.L.K. and Bobby Kennedy died in vain; and that no one any longer believes what M.L.K. said in his Nobel Prize address in Oslo: “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”
I can’t say it.
My weight, but I’m working on it. I will return!
It’s never going to be absolutely perfect. There will always be something you would change if you could.
Right here, right now.
Bob Schieffer, Patti LuPone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ernest Borgnine, Natalie Imbruglia, Jane Fonda
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