Norman Reilly Raine

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    A fat stomach sticks out too far, Monsieur La Rue. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
    —Norman Reilly Raine (1895–1971)

    I tell you, you’re ruining that boy. You’re ruining him. Why can’t you do as much for me?
    S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made as Huxley College president to Connie, the college widow (Thelma Todd)

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