David Copperfield

So the reason that I'm choosing...

It's like I said, I think there are moments and aphorisms that have stayed with me that either... crystallize things that i've been feeling but have not been able to articulate properly or genuinely have informed the way i think i think about life so this is just dickens this is ridiculous i'm so sorry there's two things there's three bits in two different books so in david copperfield one of his most famous books and i've got it written down here so i get it right It starts off with, so it's narrated by David Copper.

It starts off with, whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

And I

So anyway, that is quote one that has influenced me.

And then quote two is almost the opposite of that.

In David Copperfield, there's a character called Mr. McCorber, who is based on Charles Dickens' dad, who to go back to the theme at the start, is someone who gets into financial trouble all the time and dick instead was the same and ended up in debtless jail uh etc but mr mccorber has a catchphrase which is something will turn up and and and throughout the book he's a comic character because you know something does turn up and it's always bad luck for him but at the end of the book he People gather together to pay off his debts and he moves to Australia and he becomes a governor in Australia and becomes really successful and something genuinely does turn up.

And I always – I think I'm an over-optimistic person in some ways.

And what a day that was on which a boy named Charles Dickens, at the dullest, drabbest, dreariest period of his youthful career, found a row of old novels on a high and dusty shelf.

Forrester has told the story in his life of Dickens, and Dickens himself has told it in David Copperfield.

Those twelve old books, Forrester says, furnished the boy with a host of friends when he had no single friend, and when he was compelled to leave them he felt that he was leaving everything that had given his ailing little life its picturesqueness and sunshine.

It was his biographer adds the birth of his fancy.

Those books, says Dickens in David Copperfield, those books were my only and my constant comfort.

They were glorious companions.

They kept alive my fancy.

...

when I read Bleak House, I remember telling Martin, "That's my very favorite Dickens book." And then I read David Copperfield, and was like, "That's my very favorite Dickens book."

Mm-hmm.

And then I read Little Dorrit, and I thought-