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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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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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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
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Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.
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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 always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts
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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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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.
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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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It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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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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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
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We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.
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To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time
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It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.
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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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Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
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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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