"I fought against the bottle, but I had……" — Leonard Cohen
"I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk."
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site.
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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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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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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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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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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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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and…
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I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and…
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I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'
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I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.
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To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage…
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I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of…
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,'…
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done,…
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