Quotes of Eunuch - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Brendan Behan

“ Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful. ”

- Unknown

“ Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. ”

- John Braine

“ God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Theirs is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano… ”

- Guy Murchie
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