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You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

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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[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.
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Do not be a magician - be magic!
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
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It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
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Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
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It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.
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Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care
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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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You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.
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You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee
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And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.
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I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...
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You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.
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I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
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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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I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
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