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.
That I’ll never work again.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2012 source ↗
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
Losing my family. And fear that the world won't become a better place.
Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
Getting to the point in life where I can accept that the truth is there is no perfect happiness.
I think when we were doing The Mary Tyler Moore Show. That was the first time that I was able to, on a regular basis, be funny.
Their responsibility to the friendship.
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