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"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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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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"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."
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"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
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"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline."
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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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"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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"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
Fire
"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
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"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally."
Fire
"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."
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