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Never make a decision when you need to pee.

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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I've expressed my gratitude to my son many times. And his career is far from undistinguished, and it was a great privilege to have someone of this skill bringing this album to conclusion.
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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
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Get ready for the future: it is murder.
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Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this generation, but perhaps as some kind of agenda we could invite our writers and cultural workers to address the problem a little more responsibly, because people are suffering tremendously from a want of data.
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Some people are graced with a flow some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.
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Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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I'm planning a catastrophe.
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It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.
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It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
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English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
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To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
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