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Neil Darrow Strauss, also known by the pen names Style and Chris Powles (born March 9, 1969) is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter. He is best known for his book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, in which he describes his experiences in the seduction community in an effort to become a "pick-up artist." He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and also wrote regularly for The New York Times.

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I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.

Artist, Rocks, Stars, Twitter

Your intention for a book is never the same as the reception.

Book, Intention, Reception, Same

Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you. In the meantime, treat others how you'd like to be treated. One trait that some of the best (communicators) share is empathy. A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.

Couple, Empathy, Instead, Judging, Person, Putting

You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.

Build, Lesser, Protect, Self, Systems

Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.

Ask, Body, Kissing, May, Woman

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Advice, Artist, Good, Honesty, Piece, Things

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.

Ambition, Creativity, Human, Information, Innovation, Passion

A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.

Compliment, Couple, Judging, Make, Want, Week

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

Book, People, Events, Emotion, Entertained

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

Enjoy, Love Is, Medium, Right, Stories, Thinking

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. 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.

Built, Check, Checked, Couple, Eye, Years

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.

Art, Book, Self Worth, Books, Pandering

I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

Humanize, Interview, Interviews, Jackson, Michael, Wanted

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

Choose, Give, Giving, Man, Men, Opportunity

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

Becoming, Fun, Make, Scared

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

Art, Want, Said, Martial, Learn

In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.

Defined, Facts, Finding, Girlfriend, Loved, Paradox

When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.

Body, Look, Looks, Sleep, Wonder

Growing up, I was watched by my parents and strongly critiqued. Instead of saying they loved me or showing physical attention, they would joke that I had a Roman nose - that it was roamin' all over my face. Teasing was their way of showing love, but then you are young, sometimes you can't tell the difference.

Differences, Growing Up, Love, Parent, Strongly, Teasing

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

Imagine, Men, Thinking, Times, Worse

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