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Having a stroke.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2017 source ↗
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.
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Chaka Khan
American singer
I am not afraid.
Sharon Corr
Musical artist
Not fulfilling my potential.
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
Fran Lebowitz
American author and public speaker
Rodents – including the tiniest mouse.
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Drop 20lb and lower my cholesterol.
Being able to write books that entertain people around the world.
When my mom died, on 18 January this year.
I had the benefit of some very good high school English teachers. One in particular when I was a senior in high school. I was a jock, okay. I was not a student. Although I enjoyed reading, that was about it as far as academics. But she forced us to read good books and good writers, particularly good American writers. We weren’t too thrilled to do it initially, but she taught us how to do it. Through that, I discovered some of my favorite authors, particularly John Steinbeck. Once I had gone through all of Steinbeck’s books, I realized that I had had a wonderful experience.
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