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You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

~Afrika Bambaataa

Topics: America Anybody Back Buy Car Castles Community Give Glad Got Hip-Hop Houses How Just Making Making Money Materialism Mind Money Nothing Picked Some Them Themselves Up Want You Your

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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

~Anthony Trollope

Topics: Ambition Castles Compatible Homely Muse Passages Reader Surprise Unknown

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We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

~Ariel Pink

Topics: Alive Anything Barking Being Beyond Castles Corpse Dogs Exquisite Making Mean Meaningful Our Pain Sand Wonderful

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By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

~Ayelet Waldman

Topics: Am Any Bed Building By The Time Car Castles Children Correct Day Drained Go Her Lego Mother Precisely Shopping Soccer Spent Time Who Working I Am

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Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Act Acts Because Builds Castles Civilization Free Greatest Material Mind Possibilities Raw Raw Material Reading Takes

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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Accomplished Beyond Castles Century Continue Days Evolve Examples Film Flourish Genre Gloomy Gothic However Interesting Literature Many Mention Most Picture Producing Readers Since Sinister Some Truth Truth Is Will 20Th Century

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I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!

~Catherine Bell

Topics: Across Back Been Biking Castles England Favorite Favorite Thing Few Going Honeymoon Husband Just Love Mountain Museums Oh Our Thing Though Times I Love

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I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Am Amount Architecture Beach Bus Castles Central Cities Even Fair Fair Amount Great Love Markets Museums Ruins Some Sucker Tours Traveled Tropical Visited I Am I Love

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So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.

~Chris Roberson

Topics: Another Castles Encountered Europe Fantasy Feudal Folks Growing Growing Up Kind Kings Largely Lots Many Medieval One Way Set Societies Stories Thing Up Way Were White Worlds

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Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

~David Frost

Topics: Air Build Castles Conservative Labor Live Them Vote You

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