Tucker Max Quotes

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood) The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women' Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong. There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends. Tell beautiful women they are smart, and smart women they are beautiful. Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with, I have accumulated enough stories and anecdotes about abortion that they could name a Planned Parenthood clinic after me. Gotta love alcohol and sex hormones. The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above 'functionally retarded'. Random Girl after a hookup: 'Do you love me' Tucker: 'I don't understand the question. I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there? I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect. Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt. You look like the type of people who would criticize a misspelling in a suicide note. I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are. Fat girls aren't real people. I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying. No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second. Opinions are projections. I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off. I've heard 14 year old meth addicted thai prostitutes say more prescient things than the woman that was supposedly a 'professor As a general rule, whenever guys have problems approaching girls, it's because they're afraid of rejection or they're afraid of something specific. The way that you get over a fear like that is you figure out what the worst is that can happen. Guys, we spend our whole lives trying to get pussy, so when pussy comes to us, it's like, 'Whoa, this is amazing!' At 27, I thought nothing could be better than that, but at 35, I've come to understand the darker side of it. I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating. The only thing that someone could say about me that would hurt me would be something that's true that I don't want to be. The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody. I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them. The thing that I think about the most, and is the most rewarding to me, is the whole past. That I kind of went from nothing to something and I did it on my own, and I did it through hard work and smarts. Before you're famous it's stuff that seems like it'd be really cool, but once you get it, you realize it's not bad, but it's kind of hollow and meaningless. The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.