Ronald Blythe Quotes

• One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

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• Suffolk used to worship Sunday, not God.

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• An industrial worker would sooner have a 5 note but a countryman must have praise.

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• The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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  Tags in Old, Thing, Living

• As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

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  Tags in Bathroom, Help, Church

• Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

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  Tags in Seems, People, Needs, Weakness, Strength, Sometimes

• He longed to be lost but he couldn’t bear not to be found.

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  Tags in Bear, Found

• To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude… the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

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  Tags in Ordinary, Part, Reason

• Old age is – a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

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Ronald Blythe (9)

Birth:	6th November, 1922
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Editor, Essayist, Writer

About

Ronald Blythe is an English writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. He writes a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled Word from Wormingford.

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