Longreads Guardian Quotes

#1. [Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.

Kingsley Amis

#2. In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

George Best

#3. I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?

Lauren Kate

#4. We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

Sigmund Freud

#5. Poverty has in its favour an exquisite sleep filled with beautiful dreams.

Honore De Balzac

#6. They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.

Goldy Moldavsky

#7. Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Art Linkletter

#8. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. EPHESIANS 2:12-14

David Platt