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"I bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
"No thanks. Bad luck. Three on a midget."
"You're like a beautiful chandelier. I'd like to be around when you get lit up."
"It's the biggest dope ring in years. And Jardinet is the head dope!""
"I have an agreement with the houseflies. They don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling."
"[to Mrs.Dukesbury] Write me a check for ten thousand dollars and everybody will be happy,including the gorilla. And I DO mean you!"
"The last time I was on the ceiling was at a lodge meeting. The Chairman had the floor."
"You know what I say. Whenever you got business trouble the best thing to do is to get a lawyer. Then you got more trouble, but at least you got a lawyer."
"I ain't got nothing, but you can always have half!"
"Keep the world laughing!"
"Groucho Marx — J. Cheever Loophole"
"Harpo Marx — Punchy"
"Chico Marx — Antonio 'Tony' Pirelli"
"Florence Rice — Julie Randall"
"Kenny Baker — Jeff Wilson"
"Margaret Dumont — Mrs. Susanna Dukesbury"
"Eve Arden — Peerless Pauline"
"James Burke — John Carter"
"Nat Pendleton — Goliath the Strongman"
"Jerry Marenghi — Little Professor Atom"
"Fritz Feld — Jardinet"
"Barnett Parker — Whitcomb"
"Charles Gemora — Gibraltar the Gorilla"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.