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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.
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I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
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It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.
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Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.
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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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