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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

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

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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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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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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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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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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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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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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's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.
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For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
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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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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
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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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One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
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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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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
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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 Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.
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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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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
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