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One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload
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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You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .
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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
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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.
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There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.
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Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
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There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.
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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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Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.
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Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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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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We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.
Leonard Cohen
