Lolita - Conversations Around a Troubling Relationship
Jean Farlow: [about Charlotte]
She was a wonderful person, Humbert. She was always so gay, wasn't she, John?
Jean Farlow: [to Humbert]
Try to think of your poor little Lolita, all alone in the world. You must live for her sake.
Miss Lebone: [to Humbert]
Well I think I ought to tell you that the neighbors are beginning to get a little curious about you and your little girl...You know how people talk.
Clare Quilty: [on the phone]
Hello. Is this Professor Humbert?...How are you Professor?...I was just wondering if you've been enjoying your stay in our lovely little town...It doesn't matter what my name is. It's really obscure - an unremarkable name....my department, you see, is sorta concerned with the bizarre rumors that have been circulating about you and that lovely, remarkable girl you've been traveling around with...with all this traveling around you do, you don't get much time to see a psychiatrist regularly, is that right?...You are classified in our files, professor, you are classified in our files as a white widowed male. I wonder if you'd be prepared to give our investigator a report, Professor, on your, uh, current sex life, if any...!
Dick Schiller:
An opportunity for a guy like me to get in on the ground floor where industry's opening up. And if we can scrape together enough money with, with maybe your help, well, we can go. We got a few back debts. We kinda over-extended ourselves. She's sure a swell kid, Professor Haze. She sure is, she's just nuts about dogs and kids. She's gonna make a swell mother too.
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