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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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Comedian
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London
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India
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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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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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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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Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
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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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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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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.
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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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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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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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It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
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