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THERE’S not much left to say about THE WIRE, so let’s just leave the best quotes of five series to do the talking for David Simon and Ed Burns’ masterpiece. BY PADDY HOEY ULTIMATE (METAPHORIC) TRUISM ''What kind of people stand around watching a fire? Shameful shit, right here. Where else would you rather be, huh, kids?'' City Editor Gus Haynes

MOST HEARD REFRAIN (1) ‘What the fuck did I do?’ Det Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West, right) MOST HEARD REFRAIN (2) ‘Sheeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiit’ Senator Clay Davis

JUNKIE SAVANT ‘Where in Leave It To Beaver land are you taking me?’ ‘Fine line between heaven and here.’

‘No offense, son, but that's some weak-ass thinking. You equivocating like a motherfucker. Reginald ‘Bubbles’ Cousins (above left)

TRUISM (1) ‘Det Lester Freamon (left): ’Seems that Stringer Bell is worse than a drug dealer . . . Det Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: ‘He's a developer. JOURNALISM IS... ‘All right people, it’s two o’clock. I need budget lines, in case anyone is in danger of committing an act of daily journalism GUS HAYNES

QUIXOTIC PROPHECY ‘What do you have to do to get thrown off this force?’ Det. Jimmy McNulty

POLITICAL TRUISMS (1) ‘I wish I was still on the newspaper so I could write on this fucking mess. It’s too good.’ Norman Wilson (left)

POLITICAL TRUISM (2) ‘Americans are a stupid people. By and large, we pretty much believe whatever we're told.' Det Ed Norris

THE CRUX (Lawyer) Levy: You are amoral, feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. [...] Omar (left): Just like you, man. [...] I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, though, right?