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“People don't care about perfection when they want to be entertained.”
― Maria Karvouni

“I want to say now that the voice takes up space, in two senses. It inhabits and occupies space; and it also actively procures space for itself. The voice takes place in space, because the voice is space.”
― Steven Connor, Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

“A talking mongoose, one must admit, is a more captivating figure than the typical Charlie McCarthy knockoff.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“It was a rare dummy that invested itself too much in caring for humans, deaf to their input and condescending to them as a rule.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“Ventriloquism was once sacred. Priests spoke from their stomachs, believing they were communing with the unliving, who set up shop there.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“Some of them get it in their heads that they are closer to God... It could get you burned at the stake centuries ago. Throwing your voice is close enough to consorting with demons, though your voice stays where it is. All that’s different is your lips don’t move.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“You talk this game about what the ancient Greeks did, ghosts in the gullet, and all that. Hucksterism, sure. I can appreciate a good scam. But to the people who came to see it—to see us—it was holy.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“You want to play innocent? That the kind of person who spends their lives projecting their voice into a lamb or lizard isn't into some kinky shit when the lights go out?”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“Ventriloquism is not a physically demanding hobby. High school athletes tended to spend their weekends fingering something other than a dummy's eyes”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven

“A ventriloquist wants to be someone else. Ventriloquists wish to speak but want to blame someone else for the consequences of their words.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Road to Vent Haven