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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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View all 256 →Not trying something I really want to do.
Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Violent death. Death generally.
Kevin Rowland
British singer
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
Rita Wilson
American actress, singer, and producer
Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
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View profile →The supreme court. Specifically the case Bush v Gore, which is where Sandra Day O’Connor – one person – decided the presidential election.
I’ve been awake almost my entire life. I have had insomnia since I was a child.
At the moment, Ukraine’s president.
That I’ve never killed anyone – and I’ve been tempted numerous times. My other achievement is that I went to Australia, which meant I was on a plane without smoking for almost 24 hours, and I didn’t kill anyone on that flight.
I just hate to work, so I can’t choose one.
The moment I realised I knew how to read. I was five.
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