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"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
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"It's difficult to do that internally, because you're flying five, six hours."
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"I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it."
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"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."
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"Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter."
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"I'm afraid of flying."
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"When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good."
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"In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school."
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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
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"I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster."
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"I could have gone on flying through space forever."
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"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
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"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
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"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."
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"Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world."
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"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
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"I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them."
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"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."
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"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human."
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"Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional."
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"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness."
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