Norman Reilly Raine

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    There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.
    —Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)

    Before I get through with you, you will have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife. Now, the first thing to do is arrange for a settlement. You take the children, your husband takes the house, Junior burns down the house, you take the insurance and I take you!
    S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, terms for a divorce settlement proposed while trying to woo Lucille Briggs (Thelma Todd)

    There are times when it is more courageous to be cowardly.
    —Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)

    Great writers arrive among us like new diseases—threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
    —Craig Raine (b. 1944)