Norman Reilly Raine

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    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)

    You’re a woman who’s been getting nothing but dirty breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten your brakes, but you’ll have to stay in the garage all night.
    S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, a wisecrack made while trying to woo Lucille Briggs (Thelma Todd)

    Zola: I need someone to remind me of the old, struggling, carefree days. Fighting for a foothold.
    Paul Cézanne: You can never go back to it. And I never left it.
    —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)