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"[on the phone] Oh my. Where? Yeah? Aw geez. Okay, there in a jif. Real good, then."
"[after her husband, Norm, kisses her] Ya got Arby's all over me."
"[repeated line] Mind if I sit down? I'm carrying quite a load here."
"So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it."
"[Practices calling Wade] Yah, Wade, It's Jerry, I... Yah, Wade, it's, I, it's Jerry... I don't know what to do it's Jean. I don't know what to do it's my wife. I don't know what to do it's Jean. Wade, it's Jerry, I... Wade, it's Jerry! We gotta talk! Oh, geez, it's terrible... [calls the number] Yah, Wade Gustafson, please."
"I answered the darn - I'm cooperating here!"
"Would you crack the fuckin' window open, man. You know, it's proven that second-hand smoke is, uh, carcin-... uh, you know, a cancer agent."
"Keep it still back there, lady, or else we're gonna have to, ya know, to shoot ya."
"Just in town on business. Just in and out. Ha. Just a little of the old in-and-out."
"Shep! What the hell are you doing! I was bangin' that girl!"
"Stay away from me, man! Hey, go smoke a fuckin' peace pipe!"
"Gaear Grimsrud: You're a smooth, smoothie, yah know?"
"Wade Gustafson: It's my money. I'll deliver it - what do they care?...They want my money, they can deal with me."
"Wade Gustafson: Look, Jerry, you're not selling me a damn car. It's my show here."
"Mike Yanagita: Ya know, it's the Radisson, so it's pretty good."
"Mike Yanagita: So ya went and married Norm Son-of-a-Gunderson!"
"Shep Proudfoot: [beating Carl violently] Fucking little fucking weasel! Fuck you! You fucking motherfucking son of a fucking bitching fucking cunt! Jesus fucking Christ you fucking shitfuckbag motherfucker!"
"Small town. Big crime. Dead cold."
"A homespun murder story."
"A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere."
"An ordinary place, an extraordinary thriller."
"Frances McDormand - Marge Gunderson"
"William H. Macy - Jerry Lundegaard"
"Steve Buscemi - Carl Showalter"
"Peter Stormare - Gaear Grimsrud"
"Kristin Rudrüd - Jean Lundegaard"
"Harve Presnell - Wade Gustafson"
"John Carroll Lynch - Norm Gunderson"
"Bruce Bohne - Lou"
"Cliff Rakerd - Officer Olson"
"Steve Park - Mike Yanagita"
"Bain Boehlke - Mr. Mohra"
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.