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"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
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"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
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"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."
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"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"
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"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."
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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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"I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong."
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"Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
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"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
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"But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days."
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"When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative."
Negative
"What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city."
Honor
"I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary."
Compromise
"It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions."
Life
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
Writing
"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
Honor
"I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right."
Thought
"I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that."
Question
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
Intelligence
"I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that."
Independence
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