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"Cue the deer."
"We came to Redbud filled with hopes and dreams of a better life. And basically, we've seen those hopes and dreams crushed and battered before our very eyes."
"Call me Mr. Lamb Fries!"
"You don't know a damn thing about writing! You're a goddamn schoolteacher, not an editor!"
"As a novelist, I turned out to be a pretty good sportswriter."
"Being a fake is what I do best."
"When they say hardwood floors, what they really mean is hard, wood floors."
"What's going on, Andy...? You're sinking into a pit of self-pity, defeatism, and alcohol... and you're enjoying it!"
"Remember, Mrs. Farmer. Whenever you buy a house, whatever's in the ground belongs to you - whether it's gold or oil... or Claude Musselman. (starts chuckling)"
"Crocker: [reacting to Andy's anger about them, the movers, being late] You slept on the floor huh? We slept outside with the bugs and the wild animals. A bridge nearly killed us. Nobody knows where the hell Redbud is. And we haven't eaten since yesterday morning. So stay the hell out of our way and keep your mouth shut!"
"Mickey: This ain't a bridge. It's termites holding hands."
"Chevy Chase - Andy Farmer"
"Madolyn Smith - Elizabeth Farmer"
"Kevin O'Morrison - Sheriff Ledbetter"
"Alice Drummond - Ethel Dinges"
"Mike Starr - Crocker"
"Glenn Plummer - Mickey"
"Joseph Maher - Michael Sinclair, the publisher"
"Bill Fagerbakke - Lon Criterion"
"Nicholas Wyman - Dirk Criterion"
"William Newman - Gus Lotterhand"
"William Duell - Old Character"
"Jack Gilpin - Bud Culbertson"
"Caris Corfman - Betsy Culbertson"
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.