"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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"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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"Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for."
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"Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal."
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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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"In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall."
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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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"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 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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"Dallas is a positive, get-it done city."
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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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"Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing."
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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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"Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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