New York Money: 10 Quotes

10. "In New York, boy, money really talks — I'm not kidding."
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

9. "New York, a dreamscape of opportunity, often presented a flimsy mirage. Large houses rose around a sudden fortune then disappeared in half a decade, blown away like stage props."
Ellen Horan, 31 Bond Street

8. "It's a law of New York City: no matter how much money you're making, you're surrounded by people making more."
Bridie Clark, The Overnight Socialite

7. "New York was a city where men made such incredible fortunes that a new word, 'millionaire,' was on everybody's lips."
Lloyd R. Morris, Incredible New York

6. "In its extravagance, its luxury, its expensiveness, its general carelessness with money, New York is like a child that has not learned self-restraint but has its pockets well filled."
Robert Shackleton, The Book of New York

5. "There is little in New York that does not spring from money. It is not a town of ideas; it is snot even a town of causes. But what issues out of money is often extremely brilliant."
H. L. Mencken, A Second Mencken Chrestomathy

4. "In a state like Minnesota or Wisconsin you can be poor and still feel some sense of dignity if you work hard and live fairly cleanly and you keep your eye on the future. But here in New York it seemed as if when you're poor you're just poor. And that means you're nobody. Really nobody."
Robert Mr. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

3. "I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money. I have never walked there with a companion without talking of it."
Anthony Trollope, North America

2. "New York was a bacchanal of the rich and obnoxious, a Falstaffian brew of hedonism and material excess: no boundaries, no breaks--just high octane, high speed, all the time."
Jill Kargman, The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund

1. "If you are going to live in New York it is well first to take the precaution of being a millionaire."
George Warrington Steevens, The Land of the Dollar

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