"The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me……" — Tahir Shah
"The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city."
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49 Quotes by Tahir Shah
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