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. (Taylor Caldwell)

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.

Taylor Caldwell

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