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"So, you finally got wise to yourself, did ya? It's a funny thing about you women. Most of you don't get wise soon enough! You wait until you're so old, nobody wants ya."
"That's it, that's it. Go ahead and laugh. It's funny, ain't it? Yeah. Women are funny, ain't they? They're all tramps, ain't they? Yeah. Except when you can get money from them!"
"You dirty, slimy, freaks! Freaks, freaks, freaks! You fools! Make me one of you, will you?"
"How many times have I told you not to be frightened. Have I not told you, God looks after all his children!"
"We didn't lie to you folks. We told you we had living, breathing, monstrosities. You laughed at them, shuddered at them. And, yet, but for the accident of birth, you might be one as they are. They did not ask to be brought into the world. But, into the world they came. Their code is a law unto themselves: offend one and you offend them all."
"Can a full grown woman truly love a Midget?"
"The Story of the Love life of the Sideshow"
"Wallace Ford — Phroso"
"Leila Hyams — Venus"
"Olga Baclanova — Cleopatra"
"Rosco Ates — Roscoe"
"Henry Victor — Hercules"
"Harry Earles — Hans"
"Daisy Earles — Frieda"
"Rose Dione — Madame Tetrallini (final film role)"
"Daisy and Violet Hilton — the Siamese twins"
"Schlitzie — himself"
"Josephine Joseph — Half Woman-Half Man"
"Johnny Eck — Half Boy"
"Frances O'Connor — Armless girl"
"Peter Robinson — Human skeleton"
"Olga Roderick — Bearded lady"
"Koo Koo — herself"
"Prince Randian — The Living Torso"
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.