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> [Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/do-the-stuff-that-only-you-can-do-the-urge-starting-out-is-to-copy/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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