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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."
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"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

"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."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."
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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."

"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."

"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."

"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline."

"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."

"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."

"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."
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