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To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

Tahir Shah

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Tahir Shah
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
Author
Comedian
Explorer
Journalist
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Writer
London
England
Imagination
Stars
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Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
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If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.
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There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
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These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
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For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.
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Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?
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Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
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Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
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There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.
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One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
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In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm.
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Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
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I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.
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