Brilliant!

Orwell.

GBS dixit

ANOTEM AÍ:

"THE fish wants to fly, and the bird to swim."

Ou, mais adiante (1):

"You cannot want a thing and have it, too."

Na soleira do bar do Jeremias, no Muquém, seu Amarildo ripostava, solerte e sentencioso:

"É, seu Jeremias... Deus num dá asa a cobra..."
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(1) Apud. HENDERSON, Archibald. George Bernard Shaw : His life and works, a critical biography. Kessinger, 2004. p. 31.