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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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Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2020 source ↗
Rita Moreno Actor, singer and dancer
The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2022 source ↗
Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2013 source ↗

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