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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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"If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity."
"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."
"Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it."
"I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise."
"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?"
"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away."
"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
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