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

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

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  1. For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories. – Tahir Shah
  2. You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father. – Sigmund Freud
  3. We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  4. If Jesus didn’t do it, don’t say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don’t say the Father doesn’t. – DR Silva
  5. He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same. – GA Aiken
  6. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
  7. People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
  8. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  9. Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. – Tahir Shah
  10. Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal. – Tahir Shah
  11. The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there. – Tahir Shah
  12. 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
  13. [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. – Tahir Shah
  14. Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent. – Tahir Shah
  15. Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster. – Tahir Shah
  16. Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible. – Tahir Shah
  17. On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust. – Tahir Shah
  18. To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path – Tahir Shah
  19. We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic. – Tahir Shah
  20. 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
  21. Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. – Tahir Shah
  22. The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up. – Tahir Shah
  23. On a harsh expedition, there’s no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. – Tahir Shah
  24. There’s nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage. – Tahir Shah
  25. As anyone who’s ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed. – Tahir Shah
  26. I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it. – Tahir Shah
  27. One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene. – Tahir Shah
  28. A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation – Tahir Shah
  29. 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. – Tahir Shah
  30. I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes. – Tahir Shah
  31. Exploration is a dirty game. – Tahir Shah
  32. The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade. – Tahir Shah
  33. In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense. – Tahir Shah
  34. Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. – Tahir Shah
  35. The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end. – Tahir Shah
  36. Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage. – Tahir Shah
  37. A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it. – Tahir Shah
  38. Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff. – Tahir Shah
  39. Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead. – Tahir Shah
  40. The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs. – Tahir Shah

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