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David Simon Quotes

Total quotes: 28
“If the Gods are fucking you, you find a way to fuck them back.”
— Ervin Burrell, The Wire, Season 3: Time After Time
Tagged: Revenge, Revenge Fuck, gods
“Vincent: We open in three hours. If you want, you can be here with us to christen the joint.

Abby: Thanks anyhow.

Vincent: Hey, it will be good for your memoirs.”
— Vincent, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: Christening, Memoir
“Vincent: You mind if I ask you something?

Paul: Sure.

Vincent: What's with this place? It's deader than Bobby Kennedy?”
— Vincent, The Deuce, Season 1: Show and Prove
Tagged: dead, Bobby Kennedy
“Vincent: Look, Frankie, as fucked up as you are, in every possible way a man can be, you've always been the one. Major league prospects, prettiest women, flashiest cars.

Frankie: What can I say?”
— Vincent, The Deuce, Season 1: Show and Prove
Tagged: fucked up
“[Looking at C.C.'s body after Bobby and Frankie have just killed him] Damn! Y'all murdered the shit out of that motherfucker!”
— Black Frankie, The Deuce, Season 2: Nobody Has to Get Hurt
Tagged: Murder, Shit, Motherfucker
“You know, I had a college girl once. She was educated, but not intelligent.”
— C.C., The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: College Girls
“Larry: Why'd he pay you double last time?

Darlene: Because we watched a whole movie last time, too, and I told him I'd probably be in trouble then, too, if I didn't show you more for it.”
— Larry, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: prostitution
“Lori: Can I get a match, girl?

Ashley: I'm not your girl, bitch.

Lori: Is that a no?”
— Lori, The Deuce, Season 1: Show and Prove
Tagged: Bitch, Match
“Shame is some tricky shit, ain't it? Makes you feel like you want to change, and then beats you back down when you think you can't.”
— Walon, The Wire, Season 4: Final Grades
Tagged: Shame
“You've lost your fucking mind, Jimmy. Look at you. Half-lit every third night, dead drunk every second. Nut deep in random pussy. What little time you are sober and limp-dicked, you're working murders that don't even exist!”
— David Mills, David Simon, The Wire, Season 5: React Quotes
Tagged: Losing Your Mind, Pussy, Limp-Dicked, murders
“Frankie, you should have been there! Rudy shoved it so far up their Irish cunts you would have...what? Who died?”
— Vincent Martino / Frankie Martino, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: cunts, irish
“Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
Snot Boogie's Friend: Got to. It's America, man”
— Jimmy McNulty,
“Kima: Fighting the war on drugs...one brutality case at a time.

Carver: Girl, you can't even think of calling this shit a war.

Herc: Why not?

Carver: Wars end.”
— Ellis Carver,
Tagged: War, War on Drugs
“You come at the king, you best not miss.”
— Omar Little, The Wire, The Wire Season 1: Lessons
Tagged: Threats
“The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. Like at the end of the book, ya know, boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right, you can say you're somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story.”
— D'Angelo Barksdale, The Wire, Season 2: All Prologue
Tagged: Past, Karma, New Beginnings, Change
“Lambs go to slaughter. A man, he learns when to walk away.”
— The Greek, The Wire, Season 2: Port in a Storm
Tagged: Lambs, Slaughter, walk away
“[cornering a drug dealer] The cheese stands alone.”
— Omar Little, The Wire, The Wire Season 1: The Pager
Tagged: Threats, Cheese
“They can chew you up, but then they gotta spit you out.”
— Jimmy McNulty, The Wire, Season 2: Collateral Damage
Tagged: Chew, Spit, Karma
“Now you make sure you tell old Marlo I burned the money. 'Cause it ain't about that paper. It's about me hurtin' his people and messin' with his world. Tell that boy he ain't man enough to come down to the street with Omar. You tell him that!”
— Omar Little, The Wire, Season 5: The Dickensian Aspect
Tagged: Threats
“There you go. Givin' a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.”
— Bunk Moreland,
“The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play.”
— Marla Daniels, The Wire, The Wire Season 1: The Detail
Tagged: Winning, Losing, Playing
“Either sign yourself into medical or go up on that roof wet”
— Cedric Daniels, The Wire
Tagged: The Wire
“Herc: Fucking white boys, I love 'em. I fucking love 'em.

Kima: Yeah?

Herc: Dumb as a box of rocks.

Kima: Who?

Herc: White boys. Talking about the brain-deads in my Kane Street case. I call him up, I tell him I wanna buy some drugs. You know what he says? Says ‘Okay, I'll sell you the drugs. How much drugs do you want?’”
— Herc, The Wire, Season 2: Collateral Damage
Tagged: anti-white racism, White Boys, Brain-Dead, dumb
“Levy: You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You're stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off—

Omar: Just like you, man.

Levy: —the culture of drugs...excuse me, what?

Omar: I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, though, right?”
— David Simon, The Wire, Season 2: All Prologue
Tagged: shotgun, Briefcase, Amoral, Drug Trade, Parasite, Hypocrisy
“I been doin' this a long time. I ain't never said nothin' to no cop. [Bodie sighs] I feel old...I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never fucked up a count, never stole off a package, never did some shit that I wasn't told to do. I've been straight up. But what come back? You think if I get jammed up on some shit, they be like, 'All right, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got to his pay lawyer. We got a bail.' They want me to stand with them, right? Where the fuck they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when shit goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man...we like them little bitches on the chessboard.”
— Preston "Bodie" Broadus, The Wire, Season 4: Final Grades
Tagged: Game is Rigged, Chessboard, Pawns, Bail, Gang Life
“Ilene: And what is your occupation?

Omar: Occupation?

Ilene: What exactly do you do for a living, Mr. Little?

Omar: I rip and run.

Ilene: You...

Omar: I robs drug dealers.

Ilene: And exactly how long has this been your occupation, Mr. Little?

Omar: Well, I don't know exactly. I venture to say maybe 'bout eight or nine years.

Ilene: Mr. Little, how does a man rob drug dealers for eight or nine years and live to tell about it?

Omar: Day at a time, I suppose.”
— Omar Little, The Wire, Season 2: All Prologue
Tagged: Robbery, Drug Dealers, Honesty, One Day At A Time
“Candy: You know, I don't think you have enough money in your wallet for that tonight.

Leonard: Come on, Candy. You get paid more than usual for it. How do you know?

Candy: How do I know?

Leonard: Yeah, how?

Candy: Because nobody actually likes getting fucked in the ass, even as pretend. You don't walk right after. And look at this. Right here I'm fuckin' walkin'. All night I'm fuckin' walking, in heels even!

Leonard: Come on, Candy. None of the girls?

Candy: No. None of the girls. None of the girls want your dick, really truly want your dick up their ass.”
— Candy, The Deuce, Season 1: The Principle Is All
Tagged: Anal Sex, dick, Fucked
“Now listen to me you little fuckin' piece of shit; I'm gon' tell you one thing, and one thing only, about the Western boys you're playing with: We do not lose! and we do not forget! and we do not give up! Ever! So I'm only gon' say this one time: If you march yo' ass out here right now and put the bracelets on, we will not kick the livin' shit outta you. But if you make us go into the weeds for you, or make us come back out here tomorrow night, catch you onda corner, I swear to fuckin' Christ, we will beat you longer, and harder, than you beat your own dick!”
— Ellis Carver, The Wire, Season 3: Time After Time
Tagged: Piece of Shit, Christ, Threats
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