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In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
– Tahir Shah

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  2. In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough. – Tahir Shah
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  4. Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go. – Abhijit Naskar
  5. If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. – Haruki Murakami
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  8. How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to -˜draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser? – Craig D Lounsbrough
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  10. Best practices are particularly valuable to those who are unfamiliar with email’s unique, often confusing rules. – Chad White
  11. Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives. – Tahir Shah
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. [T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. – Tahir Shah
  15. Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent. – Tahir Shah
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  17. On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust. – Tahir Shah
  18. We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic. – Tahir Shah
  19. 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
  20. Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. – Tahir Shah
  21. On a harsh expedition, there’s no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. – Tahir Shah
  22. It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host’s house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid. – Tahir Shah
  23. There’s nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage. – Tahir Shah
  24. As anyone who’s ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed. – Tahir Shah
  25. I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it. – Tahir Shah
  26. One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene. – Tahir Shah
  27. A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation – Tahir Shah
  28. 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
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  30. 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
  31. In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense. – Tahir Shah
  32. Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. – Tahir Shah
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts. – Tahir Shah
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  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
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