04UndatedI’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.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
06UndatedFighting 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.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
07UndatedLike forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
09UndatedWe give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
10UndatedIt’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.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
13UndatedThe more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
14UndatedWe were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
15Undated...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
18UndatedMy 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.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
19UndatedThe ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
21UndatedSo much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
23UndatedThe 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.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
24UndatedI 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.Cameron Conaway / quote ↗
