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    Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

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    Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

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    A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

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    A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.

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    But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

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    Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

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    Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

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    Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

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    Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

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    Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

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    Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

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    Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

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    For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

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    If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

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    In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

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    It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

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    Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.

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    Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.

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    Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

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    Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.

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    Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

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    People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

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    The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

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    The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

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    The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

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    The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

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    The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

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    There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

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    The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

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    Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!

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    We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.

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    Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

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    A part of me will probably always be waitin’ for her. And even when I get to the end of this life and she’s not there, I think I’ll still just wait. It’s the cruel reality of love, I think—that once you find it, it’s yours to carry. And even if you lose it and never find it back again, I think you still just keep on carrying it...and waitin’—long after the curtain closes.

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    A smitten smile unexpectedly shot across my face, and I quickly hid it as best I could–purely out of habit. Will Stephens doesn’t get smitten smiles.

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    Big events, small, mundane moments of the day–it doesn’t matter; the past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

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    Brooke was always my summer. She’ll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.

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    But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded—that’s how I feel about her. She wasn’t there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed.

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    Deep down, we’re all some kind of crazy, Ada.

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    Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn't ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of the weapons in their arsenal. Evil must, after all, appear attractive if it's going to be tempting, and from there it's only a small step further to the conclusion that feminine beauty is inherently wicked.

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    Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

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    Don’t count him out, Julia. He hasn’t given up on you.

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    His voice had this thick, Charleston accent, where every word had more syllables than ever intended, yet each word seemed as if it had been carefully chosen and presented in a way that only a man born and raised in the heart of the South could–distinguished and from a different time.

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    Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It’s something you always have. You just have to believe you do.

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    How does the story really go? Does she ever cross your mind? Does she ever steal your nights? Is she still a part of you? Do you ever wish she were still by your side? And what would you do? If she walked up here tomorrow And told you that she loved you? Would you drop it all and run to her? Would you tell her you love her too? Or would you simply send her home? And tell her you’ve moved on? Tell me, Buddy, what would you do?

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    If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impressed or daunted to see them pick Proust or Thomas Mann or James Joyce. You might even feel sheepish about the fact that you reread Pride and Prejudice or The Lord of the Rings, or The Catcher in the Rye or Gone With the Wind every couple of years with some much pleasure. Perhaps, like me, you're even a little suspicious of their claims, because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly - or the ones we'd most like other people to think we read over and over again.

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    I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I’ve learned you don’t so easily get it back.

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    I had found him again, and with him, my world had become completely unwound. It was messy and impulsive, naïve and irrational, and somehow, right again.

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    I have to know if you believe in second chances—because I do, even if they do come with good-byes.

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    I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.

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    I’ll love you until the last petal falls, Jules.