Neil Strauss
Educated at the Latin School of Chicago, Vassar College, and Columbia University, Neil Strauss established the academic and intellectual foundations that would support a career spanning several areas of nonfiction writing.
Born on October 13, 1973, in Chicago, Strauss is a citizen of the United States who has worked as a journalist, writer, biographer, and music journalist. His professional activities have encompassed music criticism alongside broader journalistic work, with his output conducted in the English language. The roles of journalist and music critic placed him in a position of engaging with cultural subjects across multiple formats, from criticism to biography.
As a biographer and music journalist, Strauss has worked across overlapping areas of nonfiction. His documented occupations — journalist, music critic, biographer, and music journalist — reflect a career in which different forms of factual writing have coexisted. His early education at the Latin School of Chicago preceded his studies at Vassar College and Columbia University, the sequence of which forms the documented record of his formal training.
Quotes by Neil Strauss
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Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work, relaxation, exercise, socialising and family - plus some alone time to do something contemplative, creative, or educational.
After an hour of blather, I started to understand Tyler Durden. Human interaction to him was a program. Behavior was determined by frames and congruence and state and validation and other big-chunk psychological principles. And he wanted to be the Wizard of Oz: the little guy behind the curtain, pulling the strings that made everyone around him think he was a big and powerful master of the realm. I.
We ran around the party asking everyone for their opinion on having wallabies as pets. Between the opener and my shirt, within a half hour we were surrounded by women.
I think the existential dilemma is: We’re social animals, so we all wrestle with a sense of inadequacy. But when we realize that we’re not as inadequate as we thought we were, and when we realize that everybody else also thinks they’re inadequate, then that ache goes away and the idea that we’re not a person of value disappears to some extent.
Lying is about controlling someone else’s reality, hoping that what they don’t know won’t hurt you.
Every word, every step, every action is irreversible. If we step in front of a moving car, if we sign a contract we haven’t read, if we betray the person we love, the best we can do is try to clean up the mess. But no matter how hard we scrub, the stain on reality will never come out. The word you just read can never be unread.
In fairy tales, love strikes like lightning. In real life, lightning burns. It can even kill you.