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> [Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-johnstone/suppose-mozart-had-tried-to-be-original-it-would-have-been-like-a-man/)

[Keith Johnstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-johnstone/)

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