Stephen Cramer

Writer of poetry, hot sauce aficionado, & lover of ampersands #nationalpoetryseries #louiseboganaward #vermontbookawardfinalist

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Anyone totally into the worlds of A) Shakespeare and B) blackout poems? I know! Who isn't, right? Hello!
If you want to check out a project that combines both of them, give this book, Shakespeare Redacted, a click. :)
https://t.co/crbvRi2l5m

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Psyched to be holding the new book! https://t.co/RIvT1CdaHQ

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"There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule." --Mark Twain

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"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one." --Yeah, Confucius!

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"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." --Erica Jong

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"I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." --Yow, Charles Darwin.

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“Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” --Mark Twain

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"In the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people... asked where they were going, they'd reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' So they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land." John Muir

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"Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." --Rumi

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"You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again... Behind those colors there hides the final cataclysm." --Mark Rothko

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Just got a pile of the new book, City Full of Fireworks and Blues in the mail! Woo! If you're interested, you can check out my website and I'll ship one your way: https://t.co/0Pg0yQaSll

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"I would challenge you to a battle of the wits, but I see you are unarmed."

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...and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism...

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"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. --Anne Lamott

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"I really only love God as much as the person I love the least." Well, that sure is something to think about, Dorothy Day.

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"Rice is great if you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something". --Mitch Hedberg

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“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
― David Bowie

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“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.” --Chinua Achebe

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"Many people hear voices when there is no-one there. Some are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing." --Ray Bradbury