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

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

Harry Houdini

#Done Quotes #Tricks Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.”
“As a matter of fact, if we could communicate the truth, not only to the Hispanics but to the black population, all blacks should be Republican, and all Hispanics should be Republican.”
“The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.”
“When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.”
“We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.”
“I grew up in New Jersey in the '80s. That means one thing: Big hair. ... I had big hair, my boyfriends had big hair, we all had big hair. Our prom looked like the poodle division of the Westminster dog show.”
“I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.”
“I counted them all out and I counted them all back.”

Source : On the number of British aeroplanes (which he was not permitted to disclose) joining the raid on Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands: BBC broadcast report, 1 May 1982, in 'Battle for the Falklands' (1982) p. 21

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