“To know there is a choice is to have to make the choice: change or stay: river or rock.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin , book Four Ways to Forgiveness

"A Man of the People", p. 104; first published in Asimov's (1995)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)

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