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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Recorded Ephraim Asili said elsewhere, not written here
My fear, my anxiety, that I’m grappling with in this film, is that if we’re not able to struggle with the domestic things

Devika Girish, The New York Review of Books, 11 April 2021 source ↗

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Warren Buffett Chairman and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, 1970–2025
And now, you've got nine countries, including, you know, a guy in North Korea. I mean, and there will be, something will happen. And we worried enormously about it when there were two. And we had perfectly, we had really pretty sane leaders in Kennedy and Khrushchev. You know, I mean, you were not dealing with unstable people or anything like that.
Recorded Becky Quick, CNBC “Squawk Box”, recorded in Omaha; CNBC's own transcript of its own broadcast, 31 March 2026 source ↗
Gayle King Broadcaster
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2016 source ↗

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