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Neil Strauss Quotes
Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.
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| Birth: | 13th October, 1973 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Journalist, Writer |
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Neil Strauss is an American author, journalist and ghostwriter, with both American and Kittitian citizenship. He is best known for his best selling book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, where 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 writes regularly for The New York Times.
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