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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.

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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You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.
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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.
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... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
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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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I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
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I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.
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Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.
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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
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If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.
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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
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Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
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In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
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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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I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
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I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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