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The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.

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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I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.
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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
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At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.
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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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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
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It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
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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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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.
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Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.
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My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.
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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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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
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Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
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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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And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way
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The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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