“Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears…”
Source: On the Road
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“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”
Source: Middlemarch

“For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren’t you at all.”

“Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down.”
In response to the question "Why do you call yourself anti-art?," Bard College, 2005

“Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXI
Following the Equator (1897)
Variant: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Variant: I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
Source: On the Road

[Eubank, William, Ash Thorp, Episode 182 — William Eubank, Interview (event occurs at 43:37–43:50), https://www.thecollectivepodcast.com/episodes/182-william-eubank, MP3; 1h 44m, The Collective Podcast, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 2018, 2018, June]

Quoted by Hollie McKay for Fox News, 30 September 2009.

Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.