“To eliminate sex from a book is to eliminate the great creative force in the world. Out of the sexual instinct rises all the art, you know. … No eunuch ever wrote a book.”

1970s-, The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)

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Novelist 1900–1985

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