“[Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.”
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Common Viper
How to Become Extinct (1941)
“We of the long tails! We of the presentient whiskers! We of the perpetually growing teeth! We, the serried footnotes to man, his proliferating commentary. We, indestructible!”
— Günter Grass, book The Rat
The Rat (1986), p. 6
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