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  1. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    I'm a fool, that I should simply trick the tourists like everyone else. after all, most of them will never come back. and what are tourists for but for tricking?
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  2. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation, they pass it on. its the secret ingredient the foundationfor a salesman's success. lie well and you make a fortune every day. your wife purrs like a kitten, and your children ealk tall with pride.
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  3. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    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.
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  4. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.
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  5. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like cat pee, no doubt from the adrenalin. However hard you wash, it won't come off. It smothers you, as your muscles become frozen with acid and your mind paralysed by despair.
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  6. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, 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.
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  7. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    The ants are bad" The Bear"the ants?"Tahir"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.
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  8. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    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, makes it a little less easy to understand.
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  9. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    Because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we all have become lazy. Lazy people are like cancer. They spread. Before you know it, the entire country is destroyed.
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  10. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.
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  11. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
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  12. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights: A Caravan

    These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.
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