“Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.”
John Braine (1922–1986) English novelist
New York Times, 7 October 1962.
“Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.”
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