Norman Reilly Raine

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    Oh, you cold-blooded English. You’ll be the death of me.
    —Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)

    Do you know who’s sneaked into my stateroom at three o’clock this morning? Nobody, and that’s my complaint!
    S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, a complaint shipboard stowaway Groucho makes to the ship’s captain (Ben Taggart)

    While you continue to grow fatter and richer publishing your nauseating confectionery, I shall become a mole, digging here, rooting there, stirring up the whole rotten mess where life is hard, raw and ugly.
    —Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)

    The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple—to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
    —Craig Raine (b. 1944)