Maia

“Maktub’ in Arabic means ‘it is written.’ Write a narrative in which the speaker starts to understand that events, as they happen in his/her life, can be seen not as surprises but as an uncovering- the systematic revelation of fate.”
― Chris Kraus, Aliens & Anorexia

“Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors. It’s this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.”
― Robert Persig

“I am speaking naturally of that world which is peculiar to the big cities, the world of men and women whose last drop of juice has been squeezed out by the machine—the martyrs of modern progress. It is this mass of bones and collar buttons which the painter finds so difficult to put flesh on.”
― Henry Miller

“It was in his nature to be able to possess an idea and not know how to think it: obfuscated, persistent, tossing seeds...”
― Clarice Lispector, The Besieged City