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"I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer."

📸 #IrvingPenn, American photographer, #DOTD 7 October 2009. #Art #Photography

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is."

✒ #AllanBloom, American philosopher and educator, #DOTD 7 October 1992. #Philosophy

"The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth."

Poem: poets.org/poet/radclyf...

✒ #RadclyffeHall, English author (trailblazing lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness) and poet, #DOTD 7 October 1943. #Poetry #Literature

"I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh." (On the Rocky Mountains)

✒ #IsabellaBird, English naturalist, historian and explorer, #DOTD 7 October 1904. #History #Travel

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

Poems: mypoeticside.com/poets/oliver...

✒ #OliverWendellHolmes Sr., American physician, author, and poet, #DOTD 7 October 1894. #Poetry #Literature

"Nevermore."

Poems: poets.org/poet/edgar-a...

✒️ #EdgarAllanPoe, American author, poet, and critic, considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (The Murders in the Rue Morgue), #DOTD 7 October 1849, aged 40. #Poetry #Literature

"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also."

✒ #ThomasReid, Scottish mathematician and philosopher, #DOTD 7 October 1796. #Philosophy

🎨 Andrea del #Verrocchio, Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, and goldsmith, #DOTD 7 October 1488 (date disputed).

#LeonardoDaVinci was his star pupil. #Art #Painting #Sculpture

#BOTD #OTD #DOTD #anniversary #Hollywood #efemerides
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Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924 - October 6, 2026 at 102)

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