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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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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No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, God, so-and-so wrecked that song. Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.
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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
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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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