“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
Source: The Eye of the World
“I take a wolf's rib and whittle
it sharp at both ends
and coil it up
and freeze it in blubber and place it out
on the fairway of the bears.”
The Bear (1974).
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