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Leonard Cohen Quotes: I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
         

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.


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