David Simon

What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has

— David Simon

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

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“A man got to have a code. --The Wire”

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Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

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The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

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Health is a return to our memory of wholeness.

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What drugs haven't destroyed, the war against them has

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All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

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Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action…

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“We have treated television as if it is not a mass medium, and we have been rewarded in kind.”

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“Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.”

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Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

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Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content.

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“If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?”

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Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

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It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

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Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of…

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I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right…

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Blue jeans have gone around the world. But that's a product. We market blue jeans better, just as we market film better.…

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Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training…

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Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present…

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Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to…

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African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth…

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Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means…

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America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely…

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The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what…

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What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is…

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“[O]ne of the read truths about life in any police department: For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is…

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Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause with no hope of success…

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Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans…

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“The Midnight Dance of the Universal Desk Sergeant, a performance that is somehow the same whether the precinct house is in Boston…

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Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank…

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“This is an existential crisis rooted not only in race—which the corner has slowly transcended—but in the unresolved disaster of the American…

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“The Audacity of Despair "You can stand your ground if you're white, and you can use a gun to do it. But…

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“If the case isn't plea bargained, dismissed or placed on the inactive docket for an indefinite period of time, if by some…

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“It isn't about the welfare check. It never was. It isn't about sexual permissiveness, or personal morality, or failures in parenting, or…

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“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when…

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“McLarney laughs, then leaps into the parable of Snot Boogie, who joined the neighborhood crap game, waited for the pot to thicken,…

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Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

— David Simon

Pornography has become rationalized. It's become much more coherent and profitable.

— David Simon