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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
World
Quiet
Desperation
Inside
Entertain
Turn
Joyful
Turns
Bound
Stills
Bounds
Still
Noise
Look
Patience
Clanging
Looks
Everywhere
Drown

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