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The Book of Delights: Essays

by Ross Gay

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“I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters in a poorly written novel about myself, which was poorly written by me.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

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“You finish listening to a song of Leonard's and you know he's said everything he had to say, he didn't let the song go till he was done with it.”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

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“What I mean by depression isn't just the blues, it's not just like a hangover from the weekend,or the girl didn't show up or something like that" said Leonard describing the paralyzing darkness and anxiety he experienced. "It's kind of a mental violence that stops you functioning from one moment from the next" Leonard took the spending "a lot of time alone. Dying." He said "letting myself slowly die”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

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“He wrote how he "needed to be by himself, so he could miss her, to get some perspective”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

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“She also asked him his views on marrige and monogamy given the imminent arrival of his second child with Suzanne. "I think marrying is for very very high minded people" he said. "It is a discipline of extreme severity. To really turn your back on all the other possibilities and all the other experiences of love,of passion,of ecstasy,and to determine to find it within one embrace is a high and righteous notion. Marriage today is the monastery,the monastery today is freedom. " he told Marion he had arrived "at a more realistic vision" of himself. There was no "high purpose" in his activities. "I'm just going" he said "so I don't have to stay still”
― Sylvie Simmons, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

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