Quotes by Tahir Shah

Tahir Shah

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

Gains

Hands

Upper Hand

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.

Becoming

Poverty

Travel

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

Brain

Fear

Rip

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.

Alcohol

Hot

Keys

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

Matter

Morocco

Owners

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

Ancestry

Impossible

Middle East

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.

Country

Moving

Two

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

Father

Heritage

Stories

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

Doe

Space

Travel

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.

Blood

Book

Impact

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Alternatives

Ancestry

Becoming

Believe

Blood

Body

Book

Brain

Challenges

Cities

Contemplation

Country

Cutting

Desert

Dio

Doe

Doors

Embrace

Ends

Enlightenment

Entourage

Father

Fear

Fire

Forests

Frightened

Gains

Generosity

Ghouls

Giving

Hands

Hard Work

Heritage

Hot

Hygiene

Imagination

Impact

Important

Impossible

Iron

Journey

Keys

Lazy

Littles

Long

Luxury

Matter

Men

Merit

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Quotes by Tahir Shah

Tahir Shah

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

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.

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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