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D.W. Udell

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D. W. Udell was born in South Bend, Indiana. He received a B.A. in History from Grand Valley State University. Once a proud Marine, he is a failed fruit peddler, a daysleeper, nightripper, fast mailman, slow biker, schmaltzy songwriter, comic lover, missing Californian, National Park enthusiast, bad guitarist, Chicago dreamer, decent hiker, carnivorous reader, C college student, a historian and reticent raconteur, science advocate, church antagonist, a curious google Cat, Queen fan girl, sports fanatic, pizza fiend, pasta lover, occasional substitute teacher, Led head, terrible pianist, and now perhaps a poor writer?
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The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

by Dan Simmons

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The Iliad

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
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“Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.”
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“[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.”
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