Bill Moyers: 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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

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Democracy proves to be a Potemkin village and gross inequality becomes our permanent way of life.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2011 source ↗

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Rose Tremain English writer

We live in a fearful age: Brexit, Covid, global warming, cancel culture, war in Ukraine. Add in pancreatic cancer and you find me in an advanced and complex state of anxiety.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗

Patrick Stewart Actor

That I would lose her.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2016 source ↗

Dawn O’Porter

Clothes moths (and the imminent threat of world war three).

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2026 source ↗

Terry Gross Radio interviewer

Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2012 source ↗

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A long summer’s evening on the front porch with my wife, Judith, watching the hawks circling overhead and the sun disappearing through the trees.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2011 source ↗

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