Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XXIII, p. 278
“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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