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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
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You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
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It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
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I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
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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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I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.
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Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill And here is your love, That lists where it will
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Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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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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