It was an astonishing fantasy but it showed me what even apparently sensible people can believe if they really want to. - John Cleese

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It was an astonishing fantasy but it showed me what even apparently sensible people can believe if they really want to.

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About John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty.

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Alternative Names: John Marwood Cleese
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I now see, was the fact that there were so many areas of my emotional life where I was muddled and unresolved and therefore ripe for horrendous embarrassment that I was pointlessly guarded about everything. The lurking fear that I might accidentally give away something I did not want to reveal resulted in blanket self-censorship.

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