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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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Ronald Blythe
Age: 102
Born: 1922
Born: November 6
Literary Critic
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Acton
Suffolk
Ronald George Blythe
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One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.
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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.
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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.
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