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"Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat."
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"I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up."

"He who looks in the crystal ball ends up eating glass... They're way, way close."

"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."

"You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar."

"I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it."

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

"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."

"But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath."

"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."

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

"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."

"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."

"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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