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“Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.”
― Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
― Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
“After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.”
― Life in the Trenches
― Life in the Trenches
“The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada.”
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“Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it.”
― Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
― Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
“Boxing is beautiful brutality, and the devil is in the duality. Boxing is a tug of war and you recognize the antithetical feelings that are pulling you from the other end.”
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