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.

Recorded Neil Patrick Harris said elsewhere, not written here
That it all goes away and never comes back.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2015 source ↗

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Tom Lubbock Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010, 7 November 2010 source ↗
Tina Turner
I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

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Question What is your idea of perfect happiness? Identity & self
Probably being granted all-access to a Disney theme park with my husband, David, and a group of close friends—and just us—while we wandered and drank tropical tiki drinks. No judgment, no lines, no bad weather, and no hangovers. Oh, and our twins would be there too, but only when they’re happy and meltdown-free. I guess the same would go for David.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 17 February 2015 source ↗

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