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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.
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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.
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Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder
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Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
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Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.
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I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.
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I can't run no more with that lawless crowd while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud. But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me. Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.
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Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.
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As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
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It doesn't matter how anything happens.
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Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care
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I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
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