161 Quotes by Tahir Shah

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

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

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.

Andrew Cairns has written, quite literally, a bewitching novel, one that speaks to an underbelly which lies dormant in us all. The Witch’s List bridges our world of convention, with that of a fabulous Twlilight Zone, what may be true reality – a realm of magic and ultimate possibility. I recommend this book because, behind the smokescreen of simplicity, there lies a masked bedrock of extraordinary power.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India’s golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

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.

On a harsh expedition, there’s no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

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

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.