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Harry Houdini
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Harry Houdini
Age: 52 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 24
Died: 1926
Died: October 31
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Escape Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Historian
Magician
Performing Artist
Philosopher
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Buda Pest
Erik Weisz
Ehrich Weiss
Harry Weiss
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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.
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Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.
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The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.
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Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.
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My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.
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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.
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The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
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No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
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Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.
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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.
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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.
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Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
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I'm tired of fighting, Dash. I guess this thing is going to get me.
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My Brain is the key that sets me free.
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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.
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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 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.
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Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.
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I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.
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It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
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