Tahir Shah Quotes

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• With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.

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  Teamwork, Achievement, Team Building

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

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  Journey, Merit, Tested

  Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.101, Lulu.com

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• A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.

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  Imagination, Long, Littles

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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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  Real, Loneliness, Home

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• Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

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  Luxury, Alternatives, Contemplation

  Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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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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  Mind, Weakness, Body

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.226, Lulu.com

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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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  Order, Priorities, Survival

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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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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  Hands, Gains, Upper Hand

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.46, Lulu.com

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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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  Cities, Stranger, Where You Are

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too fast derides it, makes it a little less easy to understand.

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  Believe, Journey, Preparation

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.105, Random House

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

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  Believe, Impossible Becomes Possible, Firsts

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• A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

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  Journey, Men, Ends

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.290, Lulu.com

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• Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent

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  Travel, Quality, Gears

  Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.235, Lulu.com

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

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  Father, Heritage, Stories

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.141, Random House

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

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  Giving, Mules, Entourage

  Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.242, Lulu.com

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

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  Together, Firsts, Sticks

  Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.236, Lulu.com

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

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  Stars, Imagination, Path

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

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  Men, Way, Taste

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.96, Lulu.com

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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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  Iron, People, Nerves

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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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  Country, Father, Listening

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.9, Random House

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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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  Keys, Alcohol, Hot

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.186, Lulu.com

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• Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

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  Travel, Home, Journey

  Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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

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  Enlightenment, Varanasi, Primaries

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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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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  Journey, Treasure, Way

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.31, Lulu.com

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

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  Rain, Desert, Forests

  Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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