“Suffering. That was the key.”

—  G. Gordon Liddy

Liddy, G. Gordon, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (St. Martin's Press 1980), pg. 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=YRty_4HT_8kC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=liddy+Suffering.+That+was+the+key&source=bl&ots=RZK5OAAlFM&sig=xc-5y539aH5ERGbwmGwvfi-I0wY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidzYmrg5jeAhWxHTQIHf5_DoIQ6AEwBHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=liddy%20Suffering.%20That%20was%20the%20key&f=false, describing his epiphany about how to conquer fear.
Compare the fictional reply, attributed to Liddy in All the President's Men (1976), when asked how he could keep his hand over a lit candle until his flesh seared: "The trick is not minding."

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