All Tahir Shah Quotes
- Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. Best
- Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. Alternatives
- 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
- 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… False
- Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible. Becomes
- Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession. Cities
- For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories. Country
- Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi. Business
- 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,… Believe
- 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… Ashamed
- 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.… Anonymously
- 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… Alight
- Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent Always Money
- In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it. Confusing
- In India everything has a use and a value. India
- Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. Any
- In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm. Always Felt
- There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping. Blood
- As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. Destination
- For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure. Amazing