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Tahir Shah
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
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London
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One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
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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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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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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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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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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
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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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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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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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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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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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To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path
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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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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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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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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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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
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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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