211 Quotes by Neil Strauss

We talked for a half hour, and they supplicated to me the whole time.

He’d been so neglected as a child that the withdrawal of love pulled all his emotional triggers, exploding the carapace of narcissism built by his childhood escapism. As.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That’s what I learned about male-female relationships.

His weapon is his voice. After years of studying everyone from master hypnotists to Hawaiian Kahunas, he claims to have found the technology – and make no mistake about it, that’s what it is – that will turn any responsive woman into a libidinous puddle. Jeffries, who claims to be the inspiration for Tom Cruise’s character in Magnolia, calls it Speed Seduction. Jeffries.

Life is a learned skill, but instead of teaching it, our culture force-fills developing minds with long division and capital cities – until, at the end of the mandatory period of bondage that’s hyperbolically called school, we’re sent into the world knowing little about it. And so, left on our own to figure out the most important parts of life, we make mistakes for years until, by the time we’ve learned enough from our stumbling to be effective human beings, it’s time for us to die.

2. As long as at least one partner is in the adult functional at any given time, most – if not all – arguments can be avoided.

Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn’t want to do. It only enables them to do what they’ve always wanted but have instead repressed.

Dog Training by Lew Burke.

Because it’s so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, ‘likes’ and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art – or even into their own Web ventures.