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Leonard Cohen

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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.


— Leonard Cohen


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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.


— Leonard Cohen


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Music is the emotional life of most people.


— Leonard Cohen


#emotional life #life #most #music #people

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.


— Leonard Cohen


#close #closed #down #experiencing #joy

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.


— Leonard Cohen


#i write #paid #pay #want #wanted

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.


— Leonard Cohen


#i #need #novels #road #stability

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.


— Leonard Cohen


#barely #child #himself #into #language

Success is survival.


— Leonard Cohen


#success is #survival

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.


— Leonard Cohen


#challenging #get #humans #into #know

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.


— Leonard Cohen


#deity #i #one thing #practiced #thing






About Leonard Cohen

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Did you know about Leonard Cohen?

Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1992 Cohen released The Future which urges (often in terms of biblical prophecy) perseverance reformation and hope in the face of grim prospects. "
Cohen attended Roslyn Elementary School and from 1948 Westmount High School where he was involved with the student council and studied music and poetry.

His work often explores religion isolation sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter musician poet and novelist. In a speech at Cohen's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008 Lou Reed described Cohen as belonging to the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters.

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