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“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: fire, intensity, passion

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#2

“Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: failing, give-up, quit, smart

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#3

“...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: healing, pain, reflection, scars

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#4

“The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: fake-people, humanity

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#5

“If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: humor, inspiration, pain

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#6

“A poet could kill the dead.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: poetry, reputation

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#7

“Unreality cooled reality’s burn.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: fantasy, pain, reality

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#8

“So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: control, patience, waiting

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#9

“To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: life, past, present, transformation

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#10

“How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: giving, honesty, life, sharing, time

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#11

“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.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: efficiency, fighting, life-and-death

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#12

“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: fighting, poetry, training, writing

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#13

“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.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: beauty, feelings, fighting, instinct, writing

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#14

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: lies, truth, words

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#15

“We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: knowledge, myths, religion

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#16

“It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: reason, roots, war

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#17

“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.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: cool, environment, fashion, nature, rational, religion, sustainable

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#18

“I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or wasn’t.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: define-yourself, fathers, sons

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#19

“In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: drug, progress

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#20

“Ultimate vulnerability. That’s manly.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: manhood, vulnerable

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#21

“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: changing, life, stories, writing

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#22

“A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: prejudice

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#23

“We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: nature, oneness

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#24

“It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: life-goes-on

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#25

“The storm before the calm.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: calm, stress

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#26

“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.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: bjj, martial-arts, size, survival

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#27

“Don’t settle, but settle.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: life, settle

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#28

“Fights begin and end with handshakes.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: fighting, life-lessons, respect

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#29

“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.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: america, awareness, fight, fulfillment, life-mission, society

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#30

“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.”
― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

tags: bjj, fighting, martial-arts, open-mind, writing

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