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“Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.”

Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

This book delves into the author's contemplations on the nature of faith and its role in personal and societal contexts. more

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Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott is an American novelist born on April 10, 1954. Her works are known for their humor, directness, and profound emotional depth, primarily exploring themes of family, faith, and self-discovery. more

“I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.”

People Ifs Thinking World Littles Able Walks Century Yeah Hips Squares 20th Century Columbus Dip Wigs Armstrong

Author:Hugh Masekela

“Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.”

Light Water Masters Jazz Towers Solo Tricky Improvisation Navigate Beacons Armstrong Jazz Improvisation

Author:Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

“Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.”

Firsts Use Three Language Failing Influence Century Keys Musician Jazz Creator Spread Decades Mature Quarters Armstrong Quarter Of A Century

Author:Dan Morgenstern

“Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.”

Art Form Spirit Artist Individual Pleasure Millions Our Lives Share Talent Sorrow Fame Architect Magnificent Richness Armstrong Great Talent

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“All art constantly aspires to the condition of music....In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.”

Mean Art Ends Matter Moments Form Conditions Subjects Expression Ideals Aspire

Author:Walter Pater

“Every session attended by the analyst must have no history and no future. What is 'known' about the patient is of no further consequence: it is either false or irrelevant. If it is 'known' by patient and analyst, it is obsolete....The only point of importance in any session is the unknown. Nothing must be allowed to distract from intuiting that. In any session, evolution takes place. Out of the darkness and formlessness something evolves.”

Ifs Known Darkness Evolution Consequence Importance Patient Evolve Irrelevant Session Obsolete Analysts

Author:Wilfred Bion

“I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.”

Want Fighting Walks Dying Sticks Bites Knives Twists Leaving Me Bite Me

Author:Jack White

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