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"I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself."

🎬 Remembering #MelvinVanPeebles, American stage and screen actor, director, composer, and novelist, who #DOTD 21 September 2021. #Film #Literature

“Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.” (Valley of the Dolls)

✒️ #JacquelineSusann, American actress and author, #DOTD 21 September 1974. #Literature

"I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness."

✒ #HenryDeMontherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist, #DOTD 21 September 1972. #Theatre #Literature

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

✒️ #ArthurSchopenhauer, German philosopher, #DOTD 21 September 1860. #Philosophy

"Look back, and smile on perils past."

✒ Sir #WalterScott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet, #DOTD 21 September 1832. #Poetry #Theatre #Literature

"Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase."

✒️ #JohnBalguy, English philosopher, #DOTD 21 September 1748. #Philosophy

⚒️ #HansBackoffen, German sculptor, #DOTD 21 September 1519. #Art #Sculpture

“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?” (The Aeneid)

✒️ #Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], Roman poet of the Augustan period, #DOTD 21 September 19 BC. #AncientRome #Poetry #Literature

The Swan of Tuonela is, perhaps, a more fitting piece to post in commemoration of Sibelius’s death #dotd

Sibelius died on this day in 1957.

When he babysat for the colleague of @dafyddnd.bsky.social & I, he was always on the phone to the woman in this video (his wife Ingrid)!
#OTD #TDIH #September20, 1973 #DOTD: #RIP #JimCroce. #JimCroce #Singers #Songwriters #Guitarists #FolkMusic #RockMusic #SoftRock #PlaneCrashes #MusicSky

"I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark."

✒️ #CKWilliams, American poet and translator (Pulitzer Prize 2000), #DOTD 20 September 2015. #Poetry #Literature