Creative Quotations from . . .
Ronald Blythe
(1922-____) born on Jan 00
English writer, editor. He is best known in his native England for his Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (1969), a portrait of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s.
Share |
         
   
Click Here for an explanation of the five components of Creative Quotations
F
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.

R
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.
A
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
N
He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.
K
Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
 

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "The View in Winter," 1979.
R: The Age of Illusion."
A: "The View in Winter," 1979.
N: On T. E. Lawrence, "The Age of Illusion," 1964.
K: "The View in Winter," 1979.
 

copyright 1996-2020 by Baertracks at bemorecreative.com