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"I'll take the best of your bad moods and dress them up to make a better you, 'cause all the company calls amount to one paycheck."
"Crashing through the parlor doors, what was your first reaction? Screaming, drunk, disorderly: I'll tell you mine. You were the one, but I can't spit it out when the date's been set."
"I'm in Los Angeles today; garbage cans comprise the medians of freeways always creeping, even when the population's sleeping. And I can't see why you'd want to live here."
"And there's no blame For how our love did slowly fade And now that it's gone It's like it wasn't there at all And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide Lying awake at night."
"I was standing on the surface of a perforated sphere When the water filled every hole. And thousands upon thousands made an ocean, Making islands where no island should go."
"If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied Illuminate the "no"'s on their vacancy signs. If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks I'll follow you into the dark."
"Burn it down 'til the embers smoke on the ground And start new when your heart is an empty room With walls of the deepest blue [...] And all you see is where else you could be when you're at home And out on the street there are so many possibilities to not be alone"
"But I'm thinking of what Sarah said. That "love is watching someone die". So who's gonna watch you die?"
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.