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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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. The quote is a quote by John Steinbeck who said it in the 1962 book The Log from the Sea of Cortez. He was referring to how he had struggled for so many years to become a writer, struggling with every aspect of the craft, trying to perfect his writing style before he could get published.

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