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"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."
"Every night and every morn, some to misery are born. Every morn and every night, some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight; some are born to endless night."
"The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow."
"That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood."
"Don't let the sun burn a hole in your ass, William Blake. Rise now, and drive your cart and plough over the bones of the dead!"
"Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike."
"Train fireman: Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later than night, you were lying, looking up at the ceiling, and the water in your head was not dissimilar from the landscape, and you think to yourself, "Why is it that the landscape is moving, but the boat is still?""
"Conway Twill: I'll tell you one thing: if that there Blake fella keeps on shootin' marshals, I might end up liking the bastard!"
"Johnny Depp - William Blake"
"Gary Farmer - Nobody"
"Crispin Glover - Train Fireman"
"Robert Mitchum - John Dickinson"
"John Hurt - John Scholfield"
"Mili Avital - Thel Russell"
"Gabriel Byrne - Charlie Dickinson"
"Lance Henriksen - Cole Wilson"
"Michael Wincott - Conway Twill"
"Eugene Byrd - Johnny "The Kid" Pickett"
"Iggy Pop - Salvatore "Sally" Jenko"
"Billy Bob Thornton - Big George Drakoulious"
"Jared Harris - Benmont Tench"
"Alfred Molina - Trading Post Missionary"
"Gibby Haynes - Man with gun in alley"
"Michelle Thrush - Nobody's girlfriend"
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.