Tahir Shah Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Sake, Study, Failing

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

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

  Tahir Shah

  Together, Firsts, Sticks

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

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Treasure, Way

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

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Suicide, Work Out, Mind

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• The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Two, Friendly

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.96, Lulu.com

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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

  Tahir Shah

  Home, Discovery, Watches

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• Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom

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  Reading, Doors, Water

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 17, 2013

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• My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.
  Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.

  Tahir Shah

  Dream, Father, Eye

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Sep 15, 2013

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Army, Boys, Men

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.222, Lulu.com

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• In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Long, India

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Beyond the Devil's Teeth Paperback”, p.117, Lulu.com

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

  Tahir Shah

  Confusing, India, Explanation

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 21, 2013

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• One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Hygiene, Senses

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• I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Poverty, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 15, 2013

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• In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

  Tahir Shah

  Matter, Morocco, Owners

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Hard Work, Generosity, Promise

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

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• The model of publishing is changing and its happening right now, but most publishers are so frightened, they just dont know how to embrace it.

  Tahir Shah

  Embrace, Frightened, Publishing

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Glasses, Unseen, Elbows

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

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• Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Hardship, Pleasure

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• It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

  Tahir Shah

  Ancestry, Middle East, Impossible

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

  Tahir Shah

  Journey, Stuff, Too Much

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.64, Lulu.com

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Journey, Treasure

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Believe, Islam, Followers

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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.

  Tahir Shah

  Book, Blood, Long

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

  Tahir Shah

  Team, Journey, Important

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.

  Tahir Shah

  Country, House, Doe

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