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• My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

  Harry Houdini

  Men, Records, Wonderful

  Harry Houdini (2007). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete ExposT”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

  Harry Houdini

  Believe, Pieces, Facts

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• But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

  Harry Houdini

  Honor, Assistants, Secrecy

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

  Harry Houdini

  Looks, Answers, Praying

  "Death and the Magician : The Mystery of Houdini". Book by Raymund Fitzsimons, p. 166, 1981.

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• But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.

  Harry Houdini

  Integrity, Years, Secret

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.43, 谷月社

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• My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

  Harry Houdini

  Records, Constant, Disillusion

  Harry Houdini (2007). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete ExposT”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.

  Harry Houdini

  Tired, Fighting, I'm Tired

  "Houdini, The Man Who Walked Through Walls". Book by William Lindsay Gresham, p. 286, 1959.

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• It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic, Exposure, Performers

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

  Harry Houdini

  Country, Money, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

  Harry Houdini

  Men, Betrayed, Matter

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.43, 谷月社

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• No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

  Harry Houdini

  Iron, Magic, Hot

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.38, 谷月社

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• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

  Harry Houdini

  Kings, Fire, Coal

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Flames, Together

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

  Harry Houdini

  Fake People, Burning, Eating

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

  Harry Houdini

  Pairs

  Harry Houdini (2007). “The Right Way to Do Wrong: An ExposT of Successful Criminals”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm tired of fighting...

  Harry Houdini

  Tired, Fighting, I'm Tired

  Last words, to his brother Theo, in Grace Hospital of Detroit, Michigan (30 October 1926), quoted in "Houdini, The Man Who Walked Through Walls" by William Lindsay Gresham, (p. 286), 1959.

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• I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

  Harry Houdini

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

  Harry Houdini

  Alcohol, Burning, Cotton

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

  Harry Houdini

  Secret, Church, Records

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

  Harry Houdini

  Disloyalty, Servant, Performers

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

  Harry Houdini

  Flames, Gasoline, Mouths

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.37, 谷月社

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• In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Flames, Mouths

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Great Day, Should

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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