Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Words never mean what we want them to mean.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Want, Language

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

• There's nothing good about being certain about things. And I don't think there's any real talent in using language in a manipulative way, with phrases like "tax relief" or "Social Security reform." It's politically clever, but it's also completely disingenuous, and it's not something to aspire to.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Clever, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

• i couldn't speak the language of his feelings

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Feelings, Language, Speak

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to communicate. Some words, like veal, help us forget what we are actually talking about. Some, like free-range, can mislead those whose consciences seek clarification. Some, like happy, mean the opposite of what they would seem. And some, like natural, mean next to nothing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Animal, Talking

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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