“At first first nothing will happen to us
and later on
it will happen to us again.”

—  Leonard Cohen , book Book of Longing

Variant: first of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again
Source: Book of Longing

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Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016

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