| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11425 |
| QUOTATION: | If I read The Sound and the Fury or Middlemarch, I’m filled with the aromas of either book, with past readings and relationships to the characters, with a whole continent of language and scenes, but the books don’t frighten me. I can enter into their dream songs, and leave at my own will. But if I’m watching Casablanca on the wall, I’ll let my eye slip past the phony details, the studio-bound streets, the laughable sense of a fabricated city, and drift into that dream of Humphrey Bogart and Rick’s Cafe Americain, which exists outside any laws of physics, like the eternal dream of Hollywood itself, a little dopey, but with a power we can’t resist. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jerome Charyn, U.S. novelist. “Faces on the Wall,” Movieland, Putnam’s (1989). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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