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Quote by Isadora Duncan
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer s

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. – Isadora Duncan

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. – Isadora Duncan

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