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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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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What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
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A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat.
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Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.
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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.
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It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.
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I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .
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No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
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It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.
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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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Do not be a magician - be magic!
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
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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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Your body will never be familiar.
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I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
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A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.
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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
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