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"It like to have killed us all. But not a one took it as hard as Idgie. Everyone thought she'd die right along with him. Night after night, she stayed by the river. Big George was the only soul she'd let near her, and he watched over her night and day. You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same."
"[to Frank, as she is helping Ruth move out of the house] If you ever touch her again, I'll kill you!"
"Kathy Bates - Evelyn Couch"
"Mary Stuart Masterson - Idgie Threadgoode"
"Mary-Louise Parker - Ruth Jamison"
"Jessica Tandy - Ninny Threadgoode"
"Cicely Tyson - Sipsey"
"Chris O'Donnell - Buddy Threadgoode"
"Stan Shaw - Big George"
"Gailard Sartain - Ed Couch"
"The secret of life? The secret's in the sauce."
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.