"He hated the men floating in sleep in……" — Leonard Cohen
"He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire."
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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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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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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