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In India everything has a use and a value.

Tahir Shah

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Tahir Shah
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
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London
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India
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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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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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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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There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.
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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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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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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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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
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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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On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
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Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
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One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.
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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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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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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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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
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The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.
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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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