Vulnerability

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Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I'm not going to let you go. Hey man, I got you. There you go.

Moonlight

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Topic

Trusting others Trust Vulnerability

Speaker

Juan

Actor

Mahershala Ali

Source

Moonlight

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Drama (film) Coming of age Drama

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Moonlight. Directed by Barry Jenkins, A24/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Productions, 2016.

Make sure to allow people to take care of you.

Mickalene Thomas

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Topic

Vulnerability Relationships

Speaker

Mickalene Thomas

Source

Complex

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Thomas, Mickalene. Interviewed by Leigh Silver. Complex, 1 Oct. 2014, reprinted at https://www.complex.com/style/2014/10/interview-mickalene-thomas.

I feel naked. I feel like everybody's staring at me!

Some Like it Hot

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Topic

Nakedness Vulnerability

Speaker

Joe

Actor

Tony Curtis

Source

Some Like it Hot

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that.

Good Will Hunting

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Topic

Fear of intimacy Intimacy Defense mechanisms Vulnerability

Speaker

Sean

Actor

Robin Williams

Source

Good Will Hunting

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological drama (film) Drama (film) Psychological drama Drama

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Good Will Hunting. Directed by Gus Van Sant, Be Gentlemen, 1997.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

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Topic

Love Vulnerability

Author

Iris Murdoch

Source

Chicago Review

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

I remember after my grandfather's death, seeing Dad in the hall with tears streaming down his face. I don't think I had ever seen him cry before. I'm glad I did see him. It helped me know that it was okay for men to cry. Many years later, when my father himself died, I cried; and way down deep I knew he would have said it was alright.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Crying Tears Masculinity Vulnerability

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 29.

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner

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Topic

Vulnerability Inner life

Author

A.A. Milne

Source

The House at Pooh Corner

Medium

Children's book

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Methuen, 1928, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2018, ch. 6.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Gentleness Vulnerability

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven The Wind Among the Reeds

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." The Wind Among Reeds. New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.