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> [“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/comparisons-deplete-the-actuality-of-the-things-compared-conveyance/)

[William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/)

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## More by William S. Wilson

> [“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/every-problem-of-medicine-is-a-problem-of-language-and-this-operation/)

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> [“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/passionless-is-vulgar-metier-why-i-don-t-write-like-franz-kafka/)

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> [“Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/psychological-motivation-is-the-desire-to-change-relations-between/)

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> [“For that half-hour in the hospital delivery room I was intimate with immensity, for that half-minute before birth I held her hands and for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/for-that-half-hour-in-the-hospital-delivery-room-i-was-intimate-with/)

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> [“The woman who undergoes this operation can sense the morphogenetic field at work in her face. She can feel the lines of force as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/the-woman-who-undergoes-this-operation-can-sense-the-morphogenetic/)

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> [“You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not render the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/you-might-say-as-you-tirelessly-said-of-my-stories-at-least-of-the/)

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> [“I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/i-don-t-think-that-anyone-outside-paris-can-understand-love-and/)

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> [“I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual beyond growth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/i-find-no-reason-to-think-that-aging-is-genetically-determined-genes/)

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> [“Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/comparisons-deplete-the-actuality-of-the-things-compared-conveyance/)

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> [“...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/each-part-of-a-story-each-word-if-possible-was-to-work-frontally-as/)

[William S. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-wilson/)

> [“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of light. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/turning-and-climbing-the-double-helix-evolved-to-an-operation-which/)

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> [“The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/the-stories-of-young-men-searching-for-their-fathers-are-the-stories/)

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> [“Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual feeling. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/today-and-let-us-celebrate-this-fact-we-can-eat-the-light-of-our/)

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> [“...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/evolution-propels-itself-by-an-inclination-toward-its-next-probable/)

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> [“It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-wilson/it-s-my-side-i-have-found-the-pain-it-is-in-my-side-and-i-isolate-it/)

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