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"Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."
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"Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical."
"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
"I don't think you can compromise, news either has integrity or it doesn't. It either is accurate, balanced and fair or it isn't."
"But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward."
"I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics."
"You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not."
"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
"Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity."
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"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man."
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