Top 47 Cameron Conaway Quotes
#1. It's too bad war gets all the attention; it's too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.
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#2. I didn't want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.
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#3. To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
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#5. Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.
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#8. We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
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#11. I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn't or hasn't or wouldn't or wasn't.
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#13. The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.
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#14. It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.
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#16. Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.
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#20. We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.
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#21. The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.
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#22. Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.
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#23. My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.
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#24. Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
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#25. So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.
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#26. There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.
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#28. If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.
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#29. I've learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.
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#30. Fighting and writing's deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.
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#31. The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.
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#34. Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.
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#36. It's cool when fashion recycles itself, it's not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.
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#37. How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?
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#38. Real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.
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#42. The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.
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#43. In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.
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#44. In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.
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#45. A counter to a jab is a left hook. What's the counter to prejudice?
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