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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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Tahir Shah
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
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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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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.
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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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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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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
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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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The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
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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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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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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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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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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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To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path
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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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