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There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.

~Leonard Cohen

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Success is survival.

~Leonard Cohen

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I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

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Torah values are the ones that inform my life.

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

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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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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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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

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I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Musician

Born: September 21st, 1934

Died: November 7th, 2016

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