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Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
Architect
Designer
Urban Planner
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FLW
Flattery
Imitation
Insult
Always

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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.
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