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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Tahir Shah

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Tahir Shah
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
Author
Comedian
Explorer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Requiring
Contemplation
Alternatives
Luxury
Time

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There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.
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The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.
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One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.
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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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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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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
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Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood.
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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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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
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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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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
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On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
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In India everything has a use and a value.
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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
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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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