"How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?"

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Source : Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.193, Charles Williams

Charles Williams

#Bargaining Quotes

“Ibiza, if you've never been there before, is very overwhelming. It's like nowhere on earth. The best advice is to sleep as late as possible because nothing gets going until around 3am and it goes until like 7 or 8.”
“And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.”
“Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.”
“Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.”
“If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.”
“I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.”
“I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.”
“You achieve what you believe in, look for, and work for.”

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