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Ronald Blythe [1922-0] English

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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.

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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.	Strength	101
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.		102
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.		103
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.		104
He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.		105

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