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How To Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it
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Spider, Spin Me A Web: A Handbook For Fiction Writers – A Complete Guide to Mastering Writing Techniques, Creativity, and the Craft of Storytelling

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“He was free but didn’t know it: trapped by the walls of his interpretations and stories, the perpetual trance of his self-constructed reality.”
― Matthew Maxwell, How To Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it

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