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I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

~Harry Houdini

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What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

~Harry Houdini

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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

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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 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

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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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The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

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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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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.

~Harry Houdini

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Type: Entertainer

Born: March 24th, 1874

Died: October 31st, 1926

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