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Letter "L" » literate
«Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without question.»
Author: Edith Clara Summerskill
(Physician, Politician, Writer)
| Keywords:
literate, populate, populated, populated by, space age, taboo, taboos
«All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.»
«He is forced to be literate about the illiterate, witty about the witless and coherent about the incoherent.»
«I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.»
«Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.»
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