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