"I've forgotten most of what I've read and,……" — Leonard Cohen
"I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world."
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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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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their…
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten,…
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a…
— Don Adams
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Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
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Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.
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Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope…
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