Quotes by Michael Lee West, American Pie

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“It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.”

“He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.”

“Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave”

“Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.”

“There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.”

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“Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die.-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave”
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
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“I was tired of well-meaning folks, telling me it was time I got over being heartbroke. When somebody tells you that, a little bell ought to ding in your mind. Some people don't know grief from garl...”
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
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“There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.”
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
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“This is how the soul heals. it thaws out bit by bit, the way the ground warms after a hard winter. you notive the sun or hear the whippoorwill calling across the flats. You sweep your porch, go dri...”
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
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“It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.”
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
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“He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.”
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
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“You raise them half-decent, and they grow up and leave. They move to Miami or California-- someplace with gourmet groceries and nude beaches because you've reared them to cook good and be liberal m...”
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
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“Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.”
— Michael Lee West, American Pie
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