"I will say I am the sum of my books."

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Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

V. S. Naipaul

“Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.”
“I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.”

Source : Source: theimarketingcafe.com
“Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.”

Source : "John W. Kluge, 95, RIP. Entrepreneur, Benefactor to Columbia University" by Dave Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2010.
“It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.”
“I read books more than I go out.”
“My McQueen particularly was hard to make, because my father was dying. I see it, and I see my confusion, my pain, my everything. I thought that it was really interesting to be able to put the people from behind the camera in front of the camera as they make it.”
“The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.”
“We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.”

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