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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
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Comedian
Explorer
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London
England
Luxury
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Contemplation
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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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To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path
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On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
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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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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
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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 taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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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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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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During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
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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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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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There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
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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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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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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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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
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