Hungarian - Entertainer | March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926
What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.
Harry Houdini
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I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
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It is not unusual for the eye or ear to play tricks with one, but when such illusions and delusions are taken for the Spirit forms of the departed and voices of the dead instead of being recognized as some subjective phenomena brought about by a physical cause, the situation takes on a grave aspect.
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The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
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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.
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Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.
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It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.
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I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were possible, but I have never received a word.
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The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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