Quote #27

Lolita is pornography, and we do not plan to review it.

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  1. Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book - all right then - a great book.
  2. The political barbarism of the century made him an exile, a wanderer, a Hotelmensch, not only from his Russian homeland but from the matchl…
  3. If I say that Nabokov, who was educated in England... turns out to be a master of English prose - the most extraordinary phenomenon of the …
  4. Lolita is one of our finest American novels, a triumph of style and vision, an unforgettable work, Nabokov's best (though not most characte…
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  6. All of Nabokov's books are about tyranny, even Lolita. Perhaps Lolita most of all.
  7. Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their p…
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