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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 4.06 — 70,344 ratings — published 1955
Still Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 3.91 — 430 ratings — published 2015
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,965 ratings — published 1861
“I learned from him that we should attempt a total surrender to whatever atmosphere was offering itself at the moment; in a squalid town to seek out those very places where its squalor rose to grimness and almost grandeur, on a dismal day to find the most dismal and dripping wood, on a windy day to seek the windiest ridge. There was no Betjemannic irony about it; only a serious, yet gleeful, determination to rub one's nose in the very quiddity of each thing, to rejoice in its being (so magnificently) what it was.”
― Surprised by Joy
― Surprised by Joy
“In the first place he made short work of what I have called my 'chronological snobbery,' the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.”
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