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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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Gino D'Acampo Italian-British celebrity chef and media personality
Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 December 2022 source ↗
Heights. I love being high, but I don’t like being up high.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗

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