Janet Frame Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

  Janet Frame

  Death, Accomplishment, May

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

• Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

  Janet Frame

  Jobs, Giving Up, Angel

  Janet Frame (1990). “Daughter buffalo”

• But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace.

  Janet Frame

  Regret, Mean, Successful

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