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Ronald Blythe, a British writer born on November 6, 1922, is renowned for his profound portrayals of rural English life. His works are characterized by delicate observations of nature and human emotions.

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Famous Ronald Blythe Quotes

“There is something treasonable about a child that does well. A market gardener I know, who is now about twenty, is a lonely person because he went to the grammar school and the village women say, ‘Didn’t get him far did it? All that schooling and he’s still on the land.’ Perhaps they know there is nothing like education for breaking up an ordinary country family.”

Happiness Education Family Marriage Society Acceptance Rurul Life

Author:Ronald Blythe

“We set to work to bury people. We pushed them into the sides of the trench but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging - even waving! There was one which we all shook when we passed, saying, 'Good morning', in a posh voice. Everybody did it. The bottom of the trench was springy like a mattress because of all the bodies underneath.”

Corpses Trenches Wwi World War One Leonard Thompson

Book:Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

Source: Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

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

People Stills Reason Past Memories Journey Reason Why Old People

Book:The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

Source: The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

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

Joy One Thing Acceptance Ingratitude Joy Of Living Acceptance Of Death

Book:Characters & Their Landscapes

Source: Characters & Their Landscapes

“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.”

People Needs May Long Sometimes Seems Used Dies Special Stage Weakness Finals Reaching Thick Drag

Author:Ronald Blythe

“Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.”

Facts Morality Drama Battle Murder Jane Austen Shipwreck Mayhem

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

Novel Appreciate Appreciate Life Ordinariness

Book:The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

Source: The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

“Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.”

Book Age Funny Names Old Age Addresses Address Books

Author:Ronald Blythe

“I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?”

Thinking World Sometimes Asks Enjoy Wonderful Mines Gods Will Wonderful World

Book:Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford

Source: Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford

“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.”

Reason Age Past Huge Ordinary Extraordinary Old Age Reason Why Multitudes

Book:The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

Source: The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age

“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.”

Ifs Helping Church British Explanation Minimum Bathroom

Author:Ronald Blythe

About the Author

Born: November 6, 1922
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 11

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The View in Winter: Reflections on Old AgeRelated source material

Akenfield: Portrait of an English VillageRelated source material

Characters & Their LandscapesRelated source material

Out of the Valley: Another Year at WormingfordRelated source material

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