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What I learned from reading Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson.  ---- [0:01] Frank Lloyd Wright suffered a personal catastrophe that would have destroyed a man of lesser will and lesser ego.  [7:20] Ben Franklin writing about vanity 250 years ago: Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor.  [12:38] He held a press conference on Christmas Day to explain his actions. He said ordinary people can not live without rules to guide his conduct. He - Frank Lloyd Wright - is not ordinary.  [13:44] Frank Lloyd Wright had a single minded pursuit of his own potential.  [18:50] Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.  [19:30] Find something you love to do and don’t stop until you die.  [23:00] Everything is malleable. Including the truth.  [25:25] All Frank Lloyd Wright had was a complete faith in h