Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club, Choke, Invisible Monsters, and many other novels, often with troubled main characters and difficult circumstances.  Today's quote comes from one such character, Brandy, in Invisible Monsters.  We are the amalgamation of the people with whom we most often and closely associate.  Importantly, we can (and should) curate that group carefully.

Episode 159 - Poetry Explication #11: How Did You Die by Edmund Vance Cooke

Quotations is about words, written and spoken throughout history.  Words speak to us through our eyes and our ears.  They enrich our lives, allow us to communicate thoughts to others, and sometimes, last for generations.  

This podcast explores not only the words, but the speaker, author, figure, or character who originated them.  To whom were they said or written?  What was their intended effect and on whom?  What was the originator thinking?  Find out each episode and we discover new quotations, some familiar, some not!