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No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
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The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
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