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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

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Tahir Shah
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
Author
Comedian
Explorer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Requiring
Contemplation
Alternatives
Luxury
Time

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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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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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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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The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.
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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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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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Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.
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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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Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
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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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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
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There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
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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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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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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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Stories are not like the real world they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.
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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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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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To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.
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