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"Which of all your books, in this sense, would you say was the most difficult to write? Oh, Lolita, naturally."

"My little girl's heartrending fate had to be taken into account together with the cuteness and limpidity. ... It is a hateful name for a hateful perso"

"But in 1960, after the success of Lolita, you moved to France and Switzerland and have not returned to the U. S. since. ... I am living in Switzerland"

"I came to America in 1940 and decided to become an American citizen... You spent 20 years in America, and yet you never owned a home"

"Hence: Lolita. ... Dolores also provided her with another, plainer, more familiar and infantile diminutive: Dolly, which went nicely with the surname "

"submission to Toffler when he came to Montreux in mid-March, 1963. The present text takes into account the order of my interviewers questions"

"I gave up teaching-- that's about all in the way of change. Mind you, I loved teaching, I loved Cornell"

"With the American publication of Lolita in 1958, your fame and fortune mushroomed... do you ever regret having written Lolita?"

"director Stanley Kubrick proposed his plan to make a movie of Lolita... All I did was write the screenplay, a preponderating portion of which was used"

"submission to Toffler when he came to Montreux in mid-March, 1963"

"This exchange with Alvin Toiler appeared in Playboy for January, 1964."

"The four main actors deserve the very highest praise. Sue Lyon bringing that breakfast tray... these are moments of unforgettable acting"

"I never met him or his literary wife Irina Odoevtsev"

"she sent me from Paris a copy of a novel of hers with the wily inscription Spasibo za Korolya, damn, valeta"

"Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more fiction and poetry"

"at a time when I regularly reviewed books for an emigre newspaper in Berlin"

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"So I decided to translate it myself. Up to now I have about sixty pages ready."

"the actual translation of the poem occupies a small section of volume one. The rest of the volume and volumes two, three and four contain copious note"

"There is a wonderful singer in my family-- my own son."

"This opus owes its birth to a casual remark my wife made in 1950"

"I was 19 when I left Russia-- my political creed has remained as bleak and changeless as an old gray rock."

"four fat little volumes which are to appear this year in the Bollingen Series"

"my books would remain banned there as long as my contempt for the police state and political oppression prevented me from entertaining the vaguest tho"

"the poetry of the not quite first-rate Eliot"

"definitely second-rate Pound"

"I read them late in the season, around 1945, in the guest room of an American friend's house"

"I dictate the novel to my wife who types it out in triplicate"

"notes I made at various times more or less recently and discarded when writing Pale Fire"

"I automatically gave low marks when a student used the dreadful phrase 'sincere and simple'"

"James Joyce's mistake in those otherwise mar-velous mental soliloquies of his consists in that he gives too much verbal body to thoughts"

"such promoters of it as, for instance, Oscar Wilde and various dainty poets, were in reality rank moralists and didacticists"

"Flaubert writes with a style which is always simple and sincere"