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"Floor five: Subway muggers, aggressive panhandlers, and book critics. Floor six: Right-wing extremists, serial killers, lawyers who appear on television. Floor seven: The media. Sorry, that floor is all filled up. Floor eight: Escaped war criminals, TV evangelists, and the NRA."
"Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'll take air conditioning."
"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it."
"The two most important things are the work you choose and sex."
"Does the president think of fucking every woman he meets? Ah, bad example."
"The most beautiful words in the English language are not "I love you" but "It's benign"."
"I think you're the opposite of a paranoid. I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you."
"Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing. Waitressing's gotta be the worst fucking job in the world."
"Harry Block wrote a bestseller about his best friends. Now, his best friends are about to become his worst enemies."
"Harry Block has written a best seller... about his best friends... he revealed their deepest secrets... and they're not pleased... now Harry Block is going to Hell..."
"Woody Allen - Harry Block"
"Richard Benjamin - Ken - Harry's Character"
"Kirstie Alley - Joan - Harry's former wife"
"Billy Crystal - Larry/Devil - Harry's friend"
"Judy Davis - Lucy"
"Bob Balaban - Richard, friend that dies of a heart attack"
"Elisabeth Shue - Fay, Harry's last girlfriend"
"Tobey Maguire - Harvey Stern - Harry's character"
"Jennifer Garner - Woman in the elevator - Harry's character"
"Paul Giamatti - Prof. Abbott"
"Stanley Tucci - Paul Epstein - Harry's Character"
"Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Leslie - Harry's Character"
"Mariel Hemingway - Beth Kramer"
"Robin Williams - Mel - Harry's Character"
"Hazelle Goodman - Cookie"
"Eric Bogosian - Burt - Harry's brother in law"
"Demi Moore - Helen - Harry's Character"
"Caroline Aaron - Doris, Harry's sister"
"Eric Lloyd - Hilliard, Harry's son"
"Amy Irving - Jane"
"Viola Harris - Elsie"
"Shifra Lerer - Dolly - Harry's Character"
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.