Leonard Cohen Quotes - Page 12

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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

  Trying, Minors, Provinces

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Doors, Names

  Leonard Cohen “Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor”, 7Letras

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• Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.

  Leonard Cohen

  Unique, Care, Desperation

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.77, Vintage

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• After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

  Leonard Cohen

  Bored, May, Want

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.196, McClelland & Stewart

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• I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Writing, People

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.346, Omnibus Press

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• I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Events, Dishes

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• Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.

  Leonard Cohen

  Couple, Drinking, Giving

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

  Leonard Cohen

  Fall, Men, Dreamer

  Song: The Traitor, Album: Recent Songs, 1979

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• This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

  Leonard Cohen

  Education, Space, Mines

  Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• [Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

  Leonard Cohen

  Taken, Dark, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Order, Knows

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• Ah, grief makes us precise!

  Leonard Cohen

  Grief, Precise

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.20, Vintage

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• I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Thinking, Looks

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• Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Wall, Decision, Shapes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But remember when I moved in you
  And the holy dove was moving too
  And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

  Leonard Cohen

  Moving, Remember, Dove

  "Hallelujah". Song by Leonard Cohen, 1994.

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• A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

  Leonard Cohen

  Community, Individual

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Lines, Matter

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• Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Serious, Compassionate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Hands, Different

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• What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Creative, Purpose

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• I would like to study Judaism. I feel that my own Jewish education was really quite superficial from a certain point of view. Although I think the values were very clear and were presented very clearly, there's - there were aspects of the whole tradition that were not emphasized. And, you know, I've come to those areas myself as I've grown older. But I would like to go deeper.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Views, Study

  Source: www.npr.org

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• And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.

  Leonard Cohen

  Fists, Sexuality, Figures

  Song: Chelsea Hotel No. 2, Album: New Skin For The Old Ceremony

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• I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

  Leonard Cohen

  Waiting, Remember, Cigarette

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.38, McClelland & Stewart

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• I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios.

  Leonard Cohen

  Running, Fall, Purple

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.95, Emblem Editions

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• Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm

  Leonard Cohen

  Hair, Storm, Golden

  Song: Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

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