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I was never told what to read, and nobody ever gave me anything to read. You know the way there are certain books that everybody reads while they're growing up?So what I do is nights when I've got nothing else to do I go to the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard. And I just open
books at random or when I come to a page or a paragraph I like, I buy that book. So last night I bought this one. Is that wrong?
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