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Letter "V" » vulnerable
«Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.»
Author: Brian Aldiss
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analogous, egotism, flimsiest, flimsy, flood, fortifies, fortify, in reality, Pride and, timbers, vulnerable, with pride
«With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean]. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.»
Author: Gail Sheehy
(Author, Writer)
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crustacean, embryonic, exposed, Hardy, passage, protective, shed, stretching, structure, vulnerable, yeasty
«We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.»
Author: Liv Ullmann
(Actress)
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like this, patter, pattered, pattering, pitter-patter, talked, talk show, Talk shows, vulnerable
«When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
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grown, Grown up, grow up, vulnerabilities, vulnerability, vulnerable
«We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy»
Author: Walter Anderson
| About:
Trust
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find, joy, neither, paradoxically, someone, To Joy, trust, vulnerable
«We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
annihilation, dependent, fragile, passengers, reserves, spaceship, vulnerable
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