The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident. — William McFee Copy Share Image
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. — William McFee Copy Share Image
Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their… — William McFee Copy Share Image
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his… — William McFee Copy Share Image
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee Copy Share Image
“People don't seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.” — William McFee Copy Share Image
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? — William McFee Copy Share Image
A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted… — William McFee Copy Share Image
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic… — William McFee Copy Share Image
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee Copy Share Image