Ursula K. Le Guin quote: I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld ...

I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~

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