Tahir Shah Quotes About Country
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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.
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Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.
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For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
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Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
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