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“The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.”

Stills Spiritual Spirituality Journey Metaphor Traditional Investigation Voyages

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be born of immobility. There is no need to drag our bodies around so much, all dressed up. It's hot, there are flies, diseases. It is enough to close our eyes, seated on a chair in the shade, to float on the waves of imagination. Isn't that what books are there for?”

Needs Book Enough Body Eye Born Imagination Journey Disease Hot Metaphor Wave Chairs Shade Drag Floats Seductive Ambiguous Dressed Up

Book:The Silent Duchess

Source: The Silent Duchess

“I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.”

Thinking Interesting Music Our Lives Mystery Journey Musician Metaphor Labyrinth

Author:Sting

“Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.”

Matter Purpose Powerful Journey Findings Metaphor Traveler Pilgrimage

Book:The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred

Source: The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred

“The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the trials they go through. We wanted people to identify with the experience of going on holiday and having a quarrel with your wife, boyfriend, whatever. We knew if we didn't crack that it would not be watchable as a film.”

People Ifs Stories Wanted Film Wife Journey Killing Metaphor Trials Holiday Cracks Quarrels Going On Holiday

Author:Alice Lowe

“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.”

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Author:Valeria Luiselli

“Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Character Would Be Turns Fiction Journey New York Circumstances Pages Sitting Very Good Metaphor Heavy Contemporary Mainstream Thinking About Life

Author:Karan Bajaj

“I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.”

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel