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“It has been said that were I three inches taller than 5' 8½" all my houses would have been quite different in proportion. Probably.”

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source: Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2005), 141.

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“It is the right proportion combined with simplicity of expression and seriousness of thought that enables a book to stand the test of time.”

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source: The Unquiet Grave (New York: Persea Books, 1981), 94.

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notes: Ernest Hemingway described The Unquiet Grave as “a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.”

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