Quotation by George Bernard Shaw

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Archibald Henderson, in Table-Talk of G.B.S., "Literature and Science," Harper & Brothers (1925).
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