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

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

Harry Houdini

#Thinking Quotes #Secret Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.”
“ThereÂ´s my date, I said. "Fashionably late." Nora (p. 232)”
“It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.”
“Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.”
“The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.”
“I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.”
“The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I was still living, one that many of us surely experience in times of spiritual emergence. We may find ourselves pounded into mush, hanging upside down from whatever we can cling to â€” and yet have the possibility and destiny of becoming much, much more.”
“Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.”

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