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"I ended by falling on my knees and pledging her eternal love. And do you know that, at that time, and for several hours afterwards, I actually meant it."
"And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you."
"You'll find the shame is like the pain: you only feel it once."
"Like most intellectuals, he's intensely stupid."
"When one woman strikes at the heart of another she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal."
"When it comes to marriage, one man is as good as the next. And even the least accommodating is less trouble than a mother."
"Glenn Close - Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil"
"John Malkovich - Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont"
"Michelle Pfeiffer - Madame Marie de Tourvel"
"Swoosie Kurtz - Madame de Volanges"
"Keanu Reeves - Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny"
"Mildred Natwick - Madame de Rosemonde"
"Uma Thurman - Cécile de Volanges"
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.