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Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
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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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
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It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
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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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
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Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
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As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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The big change is the proximity to death.
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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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Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.
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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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Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
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His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
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It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.
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even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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