Steve Atkinson:  

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind" William James "We guess as we read, we create; everything starts from an initial mistake….A large part of what we believe to be true…with a persistence equaled only by our sincerity, springs from an original misconception…." Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past "The past tense, which inhabits our lives as it fills the pages of history, can claim significance and urgency only if it insinuates a concurrent present. Given the courage, we live by moments of interference between past and present, moments in which time comes back into phase with itself. It is the only meaning of history. We search the past not for other creatures but for our own lost selves." Roger Shattuck The Banquet Years "History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." Attributed to Mark Twain "It was an experience I would not care to miss, if only because of the way it tested my endurance and my capacity for sheer misery, physical and of the spirit." William Styron, on his military service".