There is only one secret. To love what you are doing.
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
English Canada must clearly understand that, whatever is said or done, Québec is, today and forever, a distinct society, that is free and able to assume [the control of] its destiny and its development.
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.
I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.
It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.
The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on the passage from religion toward faith, from self-medication to sobriety, from daughterhood to motherhood, from being the disembodied 'good girl' to embracing her own bad lesbian self. In crisp chapters, Seaton leads us, step-by-step, over this harrowing and blissful road, so distinct from yet so much like our own.
It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.
It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.