Quote by Gunther Grass
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. - Gunther G

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. – Gunther Grass

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness. – Gunther Grass

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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. – Gunther Grass

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass

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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. – Ambrose Bierce

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What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. – Bliss Carman

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Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward. – Reginald W. Kaufman

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last. – Sir Winston Churchill

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