“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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Jack Kerouac266
American writer 1922–1969Related quotes
“For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren’t you at all.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
“Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down.”
John Ashbery (1927–2017) poet from the United States
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.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
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.
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
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
William Eubank (1982) American film director
[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]
Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress
Quoted by Hollie McKay for Fox News, 30 September 2009.
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.
