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)

    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)

    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)