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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Become
Permanent
Evaporate
Heart
Breath
Moisture
Breaths
Quarrel
Bitter
Quarrels
Hearts
Normally
Words
Reporters
Black
Bitterness
Order
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