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Dylan, while he is in the shower and he and Joss are only seperated by the curtain and his invisibility:

Dylan: "Maybe if you would come in here and scrub my back it would speed things up."

Joss: "I'm not invisible."

Dylan: "I know this.


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SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability....
SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t...
SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
SUSAN SONTAG 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 It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra...
SUSAN STRASBERG My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best:...
SUSAN ESTRICH I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. ...
SUSAN ORLEAN