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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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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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 really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs.
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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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I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.
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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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Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
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I've seen the future and it's murder.
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
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