Marianne Williamson Quotes

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Because we are all of an oral tradition in our beginning histories, the voice of the poet in this particular society will be heard.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

Every generation has a different ways of telling a story. We had a great run in the early '90s, into the mid-'90s, and we became a little more executive-driven as we got into the 2000s.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

… ideas are structures built over time, each part added by a new generation.

I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.

Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in.

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

I think, if I've learned anything over the years, it is that every single season is a unique one.

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they had a resilience and an integrity that may be somewhat deficient in my own generation, and in subsequent generations as well, because America has been rather easy to live in since the Depression.

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.