"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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Source : Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.38, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

Ronald Blythe

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“It is not enough to want to get rid of oneâ€™s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.”
“You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.”
“Personal improvement is like sitting in a movie theater, arguing with the villain projected on the screen, and feeling that at least we have tried to make things better.”
“I hate to write and spend months just waiting for the film to get financed. Then when you start preparing the film and you shoot it, you've already forgotten why you wanted to make the film in the first place. I like to have some kind of coherent energy that takes you through writing, preparing, shooting.”
“If a man smiles all the time, heâ€™s probably selling something that doesnâ€™t work.”
“I can tell you my feelings were hurt.”
“The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.”

Source : "Think Like a Freak extract: joining the dots between hot dogs, Van Halen and David Cameron" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2014.
“What a child digs for becomes his own possession,”

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