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"[After being told his grim prognosis] Do you realize what you're saying? You're telling me that I'm dead!"
"You knew who I was when I came here today. But you were surprised to see me alive, weren't you? But I'm not alive, Mrs. Philips. Sure, I can stand here and talk to you. I can breathe and I can move. But I'm not alive. Because I did take that poison, and nothing can save me."
"But you don't know what it can do to two people, Paula, and the woman always gets hurt more than the man."
"I told him I was your confidential secretary, but I guess I didn't sound confidential enough."
"Maybe you do need this week away alone. Maybe we both do. I know what's going on inside of you, Frank. You're just like any other man, only a little more so. You have a feeling of being trapped, hemmed in, and you don't know whether or not you like it."
"Majak: He's not afraid. You can tell from a man's eyes when he is afraid. Look at his eyes."
"Chester: That's the way I wanna see you go, Bigelow... nice and slow."
"Edmond O'Brien - Frank Bigelow"
"Pamela Britton - Paula Gibson"
"Luther Adler - Majak"
"Lynn Baggett - Mrs. Philips"
"William Ching - Halliday"
"Henry Hart - Stanley Philips"
"Beverly Garland - Miss Foster"
"Neville Brand - Chester"
"Laurette Luez - Marla Rakubian"
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.