211 Quotes by Neil Strauss

We make fun of those we’re most scared of becoming.

How will I know the difference?” “Wounds bring drama and trauma. They don’t bring comfort.

A pickup artist must be the exception to the rule. You must not do what everyone else does. Ever.

Our Society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. It’s an inevitability tourists can’t help but realize when visiting Mayan ruins, Egyptian ruins, Roman ruins. How long will it be before someone is visiting American ruins?

People don’t come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

Love is a cage only when you feel indebted to it, constrained by it, responsible to its owner.

Then let me ask you” – here it comes, the verbal aikido that will use my words to topple my beliefs – “is it possible to live your authentic life if you have inauthentic people around you?

Once you realize that most people are just like you – and that they’re actually seeking your approval – you’ll start to become socially fearless.

There’s an unconscious part of ourselves we want to defend,” she continues, “and it’s been useful and helped us survive the difficult stuff we went through with Mom or Dad or the priest or the coach. But we don’t want it driving the car anymore.” She looks at me and Troy and Adam and Calvin, then concludes: “Life’s not worth living if you’re living someone else’s life.