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Catherine Crook de Camp

(1907–2000) Novelist

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Catherine Crook de Camp was a novelist.

Quick Facts About Catherine Crook de Camp

Born: November 6, 1907
Died: April 9, 2000
Profession: Novelist

About Catherine Crook de Camp

[Wikidata] American science fiction writer (1907-2000)... | [Wikipedia] Catherine Crook de Camp was an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor. Most of her work was done in collaboration with her husband L. Sprague de Camp, to whom she was married for sixty years. Her solo work was largely non-fiction.

Quotes by Catherine Crook de Camp

We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources…

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Careless

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Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

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Care

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[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.

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Gone

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Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship…

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Alive

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Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal,…

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Denial

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The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We…

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Attitude

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If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand…

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Affair

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