Tahir Shah Short Quotes

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Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

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A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

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Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

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There's nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

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The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

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There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.

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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

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On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

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To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

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My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

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Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

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The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

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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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Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.

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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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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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Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

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Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

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The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

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Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

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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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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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There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

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