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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."

"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
Explore more quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
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