“Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: The Favorite Game
“It will not always be summer, build barns.”
— Hesiod, book Works and Days
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 503.
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A Winter Diary: January, 1941 http://books.google.com/books?id=Kq7WAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+am+always+humbled+by+the+infinite+ingenuity+of+the+lord+who+can+make+a+red+barn+cast+a+blue+shadow%22&g=PA170#v=onepage <br class="br">One Man's Meat (1942)
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James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
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describing the location outside Paris, where he makes his large relief compositions
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