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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
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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I'm never sure why I do anything, to tell you the truth.
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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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I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.
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The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free.
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And here you are hurried, And here you are gone And here is the love, That it's all built upon.
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Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.
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It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
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If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
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First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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You can do anything you want to [ in ashram] if you can find the time. It's a very rigorous day. It starts at 2:30 in the morning and often doesn't end until midnight, so if you can actually find a moment to have a drink or a smoke, you're quite welcome to, as long as it doesn't interfere with your capacity to follow the schedule.
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a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
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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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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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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers exploit an immensely talented artist's loyalty and trust through greed, self-dealing, concealment, knowing misrepresentation and reckless disregard for professional fiduciary duties.
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One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
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