What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded David Hasselhoff said elsewhere, not written here
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

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Tom Lubbock Art critic
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.

Recorded The Observer, from the journals he kept between 2008 and 2010, 7 November 2010 source ↗

Pauline McLynn Irish character actress and author
Not being able to breathe – I get very panicky at the thought.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2023 source ↗

Olivia de Havilland Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗

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