Crossword-Solution: CRAMPED 7 letters, 82 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better tha…

Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you couldn't think — and who could think in all this racket? Add the stench to the confusion of cramped quarters, and who could be self-respecting?

Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bearone more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the endof the bed and slowly rubbed her feet, which were scratchy with hard, yellow skin, and dirt cramped beneath the broken nails, which changed nothing in time exceptthe way my mother was lost in it for a whileas if with a kind of relief that doesn’t relieve. And then, with her eyes closed, my mother saidthe one or two words the living have for gratefuln…