“I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.”

—  Louis L'Amour

Source: The Lonesome Gods

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Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988

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