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If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
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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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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