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Ronald Blythe

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Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.


— Ronald Blythe


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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.


— Ronald Blythe


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


— Ronald Blythe


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


— Ronald Blythe


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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.


— Ronald Blythe


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About Ronald Blythe







Did you know about Ronald Blythe?

There were short stories and book reviews and Blythe later prepared a number of anthologies including The Pleasure of Diaries (1989) and Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War (1993). He never learned to drive and does not use a computer. His book At Helpston is a series of essays on that poet.

He writes a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled Word from Wormingford.

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