Harry Houdini Quotes

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• No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

  Harry Houdini

  Hands, Iron, Rope

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• My Brain is the key that sets me free.

  Harry Houdini

  Freedom, Keys, Magic

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• What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.

  Harry Houdini

  Believe, Eye, Magic

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• Never tell the auidience how good you are, they will soon find out for themselves.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic

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• Never try to fool children, they expect nothing, and therefore see everything.

  Harry Houdini

  Children, Magic, Trying

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  An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

  Harry Houdini

  Done, Tricks, Wells

  Harry Houdini (2012). “The Right Way to Do Wrong: A Unique Selection of Writings by History's Greatest Escape Artist”, p.16, Melville House

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  Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic, Scientist, Accepted

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• Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic, Looks, Mystery

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• Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic, Enthusiasm, Contagious

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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.

  Harry Houdini

  Self, Training, Tasks

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• A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

  Harry Houdini

  Actors, Pretending, Magician

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  The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

  Harry Houdini

  Thinking, Secret, Mystery

  Harry Houdini (2016). “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdini”, p.247, Library of Alexandria

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• Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

  Harry Houdini

  Believe, Magic, Fool

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• The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

  Harry Houdini

  Wisconsin, Made, Left

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• Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

  Harry Houdini

  Magic, Way

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• I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful.

  Harry Houdini

  Years, Mind, Next Year

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• I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.

  Harry Houdini

  Believe, Mind, Evidence

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• I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building.

  Harry Houdini

  Wall, Mean, Men

  "The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini‎". Book by Ruth Brandon, p. 153, 1993.

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• I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

  Harry Houdini

  Wall, Pain, Bruises

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• They do tricks even I can't figure out.

  Harry Houdini

  Law, Figures, Tricks

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• I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.

  Harry Houdini

  Believe, Spirit, Ghost

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

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Elements, Terrible

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.1, 谷月社

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• The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half.

  Harry Houdini

  Moon, Half, Body

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

  Harry Houdini

  Appearance, Well Dressed, Wells

  Harry Houdini (2007). “The Right Way to Do Wrong: An ExposT of Successful Criminals”, p.40, 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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