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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Grow Up Old Yourself Youth
As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Accomplishment Beginning Ideal Myself Ourselves Thinking
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Himself Man Nature Philosophy Worth
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Limitation Praise
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Myself Nature Religious
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Children Myself
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Advice Mistake Plant
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Heart Love Virtue
Nature is my manifestation of God.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

God Nature Religious Spiritual
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Civilization Fall
The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Lose Perspective Quality Youth
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Food Philosophy
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Business Man Mindset Nature
An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness

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