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Quotes by Cameron Conaway

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

The weight of wait.

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.

I turn to Willa Cather’s quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.

Concrete breathes suns heat.

Dew moves mountains.

Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.

The taste of moons song.

Whats not there is.

A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?

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.

The storm before the calm.

Sweat seems to bleed / like pride from their bones.

“How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?”

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”

“A poet could kill the dead.”

“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”