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You can write almost any bull crap you want, as long as it obviously doesn't go up against some law and has the main contract elements.
An unenforceable aspect of a contract, won't void the entire contract if it goes to court, unless it's the main aspect of the contract.
Well that depends on the laws where you live but if you actually want the contract to be enforceable then yes, it needs to follow certain rules, and no, you can't just "write any bullcrap".
But you can write whatever crap you want, it can't just be the basis of the entire contract.
Let's say I write a contract for you to supply me bricks for 10 years at a firm fixed price cost of $1 a brick, with an order limit of 100 million bricks. I could then add in elsewhere "if more than 5% of the bricks are damaged, you must supply me with one living unicorn."
That whole contract doesn't become void because unicorns do not exist. In fact, if it went to court a lawyer might even argue with a straight face that the supplier must provide something of equal value to a unicorn.