Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and … - Anne Lamott

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Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy. Even (or especially) people who seem to have it more or less together are more like the rest of us than you would believe. I try not to compare my insides to their outsides, because this makes me much worse than I already am,

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Anne Lamott (born 10 April 1954) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer.

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