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The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.
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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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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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
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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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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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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
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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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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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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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I'm planning a catastrophe.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
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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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All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
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You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.
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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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I've seen the future and it's murder.
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Everybody knows the dice are loaded.
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