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What is your greatest fear?

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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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Bartees Strange musician
I think that it’s easier to navigate the horrors and strangeness of life once you realize that everyone around you feels the same.
Recorded Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 October 2024 source ↗
Paul McKenna British hypnotist and TV personality
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2023 source ↗

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