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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

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 obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.
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I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
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I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.
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