"Manhattan Transfer" Quotes
"Manhattan Transfer" by John Dos Passos is a modernist novel that chronicles the interconnected lives of diverse characters in early 20th-century New York City, capturing the social, economic, and cultural transformations of the era.
fiction | 386 pages | Published in 2022
Quotes
Everybody's a crook in this town.
distrustcorruption
New York's a big place. You can get lost in it.
city lifelost
You can't tell anything by the looks of people.
judgmentdeception
There's nothing like a good drink to make the world look different.
alcoholperspective
Everybody's got to make a living.
worksurvival
There's no such thing as an honest buck.
honestymoney
You can't trust anyone in this city.
trustskepticism
The city's always changing, but it's still the same underneath.
changeconsistency
It's easy to get lost in the shuffle here.
city lifeoverwhelm
Money talks louder than anything else in this town.
moneyinfluence
