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Why secondhand bookstores smell good
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.
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If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool...
– Ray Bradbury
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...
– Roald Dahl
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