"How can the planet keep turning and..." - Quote by John Updike
How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?
More by John Updike
“Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.”
“Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.”
“Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.”
More on Existence
“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”
“Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge of perfect being, man would never know whether there was existence or non-existence. If eternal existence is altered, then it must become more beautiful; and if it disappears, it must return with more sublime image; and if it sleeps, it must dream of a better awakening, for it is ever greater upon its rebirth.”
More on Life
“Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”
“As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.”
“The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?”