"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, Literature, Want

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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 even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."

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"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."

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"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."

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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."

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"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."

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"I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent."

Christopher Isherwood, American Author

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"You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise."

Alain Prost, French Celebrity

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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."

Henry Ossawa Tanner, American Artist

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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."

Bill Owens, American Politician

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"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more."

Claire McCaskill, American Politician

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"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'"

Barack Obama, American President

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"We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum."

Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman

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"A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"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."

Mike Leigh, British Director

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