I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?


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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
SUSAN SONTAG
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SUSAN SONTAG
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
SUSAN SONTAG
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
SUSAN SONTAG
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists...
SUSAN SONTAG
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
SUSAN SONTAG
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
SUSAN SONTAG
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
SUSAN SONTAG
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less intere...
SUSAN SONTAG
Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to ...
SUSAN CHEEVER
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the partic...
SUSAN ORLEAN
Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running w...
SUSAN LUCCI
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, comm...
SUSAN VREELAND
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful ...
SUSAN CAIN
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessive...
SUSAN CAIN
Advertising is very simple in a lot of ways. Advertisers go where the users go, and users are choosi...
SUSAN WOJCICKI
These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti...
SUSAN COLLINS
There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
SUSAN ANTON
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the s...
SUSAN SONTAG
Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when yo...
SUSAN ISAACS
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday aftern...
SUSAN ERTZ
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of ...
SUSAN SONTAG
By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living ...
SUSAN LIEBERMAN
I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades a...
SUSAN CHOI
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and la...
SUSAN ORLEAN
The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion,...
SUSAN STRAIGHT
When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and dis...
SUSAN DECKER
My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance compa...
SUSAN STRAIGHT
My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happ...
SUSAN HAMPSHIRE
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree...
SUSAN GEORGE
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m...
SUSAN SONTAG
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
SUSAN SARANDON
In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ...
SUSAN WIGGS
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAG
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my ...
SUSAN CHOI