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

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Travel, Hardship, Pleasure

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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

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Imagination, Waiting, Television

Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.71, Random House

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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.

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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.

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Book, Blood, Long

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

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Team, Journey, Important

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

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

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Journey, Stuff, Too Much

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

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These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

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Hard Work, Challenges, Lazy

Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.145, Random House

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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.

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Struggle, Adversity, Air

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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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Hard Work, Generosity, Promise

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

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Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

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Travel, Team, Sixteen

Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.282, Lulu.com

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

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Travel, Blood, Quests

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

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As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

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Travel, Fear, Hair

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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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Army, Boys, Men

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

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The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

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Fear, Rain, Dio

Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.111, Lulu.com

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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.

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Fear, Rip, Brain

Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.65, Lulu.com

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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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Fear, Men, Bullets

Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.9, Lulu.com

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A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

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Pain, Secret, Passionate

Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.92, Lulu.com

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To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.

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Real, Self, Giving

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Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.

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Daughter, Doorways, Reputation

FaceBook post by Tahir Shah from Apr 18, 2013

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Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

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Cities, Obsession, Lost

Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.34, Lulu.com

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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. 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.

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Book, Impact, Blood

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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.

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Real, Important, Stories

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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.

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Glasses, Unseen, Elbows

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

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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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Moments, Harm, Felt

Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.68, Lulu.com

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