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Quotes About Humbert Humbert

Of course, all murderers and all oppressors have a long list of grievances against their victims, only most are not as eloquent as Humbert Humbert.
~ Azar Nafisi
What chance has a lonely surfer boy For the love of a surfer chick, With all these Humbert Humbert cats Coming on so big and sick? For me, my baby was a woman. For him she's just another nymphet.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert the Terrible deliberated with Humbert the Small whether Humbert Humbert should kill her or her lover, or both, or neither.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Because, see, any amount of intimate there would be, you know—" Chelsea wrung her hands frantically. "Squick." "I don't know," Lucy said loyally, raising the flag for the backlash to the backlash. "I mean, come on, guys. He's only what—forty?" "He's thirty," Plum said. "Sorry. It's hard to tell with the, you know, the hair. I just meant that we're not in Humbert Humbert territory here.
~ Lev Grossman