From Fan to Friend: The Unlikely Friendship Between Pico Iyer and Leonard Cohen
Death, Sex & Money
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Leonard Cohen - Is He Seducing You?
When I first met him, he spoke so spellbindingly about how he was committed to this life in the monastery. He would say sometimes, I'm not interested in people who can spin golden words and hypnotize us with their magnetism. Partly because he knew he could do that too. And if he won the heart of somebody doing that, it was a trick in some ways. Although he always had this great eye for beauty and probably couldn't easily resist beauty, he was wise enough to see that wasn't what he needed.
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