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My techniques are concerned with reading signals from people, tiny unconscious clues that betray their thoughts. I tend to see it like a game...

— Derren Brown Mind Control (1999)

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There will always be liars, swindlers and charlatans. Hopefully there will also always be the modern Houdinis and the seekers of the truth, snapping at their heels and holding them to account.

Harry Houdini on Deception (foreword) (2009)

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)

Paul [McKenna] and I have been working on making each other’s hair fall out for years now, with some success.

Svengali (2012)

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)

Every day when you leave your home you give away more than you could ever imagine about who you are and what you do.

Mind Control (1999)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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