David Simon Quotes

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• Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of…
• The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.
• You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.
• Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.
• The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .
• Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness.
• Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.
• I've never met anyone with a perfect upbringing. It seems to me that life on planet Earth just doesn't work that way. The basic challenges…
• To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.
• I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's'…
• One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of…
• There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion…
• I come from a country that is now utterly schizophrenic when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas.…
• There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new…
• For a detective or street police, the only real satisfaction is the work itself; when a cop spends more and more time getting aggravated with…
• What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

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