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#1

“Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.”
― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice

tags: priorities, respect, survival

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#2

“Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.”
― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice

tags: calcutta, india, travel

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#3

“A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation”
― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice

tags: chance, journey, observation, travel

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#4

“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, Sorcerer's Apprentice

tags: illusion, study-abroad

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#5

“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, Travels With Myself

tags: book, reading

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#6

“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.

With such a book the impact isn't necessarily obvious at first...but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It's then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: book, reading, travel, wisdom

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#7

“The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: travel

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#8

“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, Travels With Myself

tags: damascus, history, journey, travel

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#9

“A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: fes, morocco, travel

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#10

“Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: moving, tourist, travel

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#11

“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, Travels With Myself

tags: islam, spirits

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#12

“Everyone knows that even the best exorcism has to be renewed once in a while.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: exorcism

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#13

“One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: hygiene, travel

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#14

“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, Travels With Myself

tags: escape, jail, prison

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#15

“In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: morocco

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#16

“Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: foreign-countries, moving

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#17

“Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: cape-town, endurance, south-africa, struggle, triumph

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#18

“Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: endurance, explorers, hardship

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#19

“Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: desert, travel, wilderness

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#20

“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, Travels With Myself

tags: conservation, nature

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#21

“It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: africa, ancestry, middle-east

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#22

“At the last moment, the fish and I exchange a troubled glance. The murrel seems to be demanding an explanation. Alas, I am in no position to start justifying the unusual treatment. What comes next is a new experience for both the fish and me.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: fish, india

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#23

“As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.”
― Tahir Shah, Travels With Myself

tags: fear, travel, writing

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#24

“Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like cat pee, no doubt from the adrenalin. However hard you wash, it won't come off. It smothers you, as your muscles become frozen with acid and your mind paralysed by despair.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: adrenalin, despair, fear, sweat, terror

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#25

“For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: culture, stories

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#26

“My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: stories, storytelling

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#27

“Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: culture, moving

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#28

“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.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: stories-dreams, storytelling, truth

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#29

“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.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: darkness, fear, vulnerability

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#30

“At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.”
― Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

tags: culture, humor

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