William McFee
William McFee
William McFeewas an English writer of sea stories. His parentage was Canadian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 June 1881
CountryUnited States of America
obscurity reputation fame
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
rushing wife infidelity
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
destiny men magic
Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.
romantic adventure vision
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.