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" 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
Life
Live
Love
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" You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice. "
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" A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. "
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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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" Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. "
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" Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. "
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" Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. "
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Only
Work
" 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. "
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Body
Work
" I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving. "
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" I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. "
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" At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. "
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" The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. "
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Mess
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" There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I'm writing about some of the things they themselves are going through. But I don't usually have much help to give - there isn't much you can say to someone in the midst of their own crises. "
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" I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song. "
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" I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot. "
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