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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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" 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. "

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. "

" I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. "

" We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. "

" I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book. "

" All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels. "

" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "

" Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it. "

" 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. "

" I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved. "

Leonard Cohen

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" Songs seem to take me a long time. I don't know why; they're not especially excellent for taking so long. "

Leonard Cohen

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" My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. "

" When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. "

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

" 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. "

" We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. "

" I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. "

" As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now. "

" I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. "

" Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. "

" And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. "

" I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. "

" In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. "

" Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. "