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"Well, I ain't no slab of meat to be auctioned off, but what the hell? Fine by me."
"I'll never forget you, Hermine. You was the first woman I didn't have to pay for."
"[to a homely woman who's sizing him up for matrimony] I wouldn't take you to a dog-fight if you was the defendin' champ!"
"Poultry is just another way of sayin' chicken."
"Hold on, Towfield, you're wrinklin' my good luck ban-dan-na."
"Hermine: [to Henry Moon just prior to his hanging] You was the best I ever had... 'cept maybe for that circus fella."
"Saved from the hangman, for a fate worse than death!"
"For Henry Moon, life was just beginning."
"Jack Nicholson - Henry Lloyd Moon"
"Mary Steenburgen - Julie Tate"
"Christopher Lloyd - Deputy Towfield"
"John Belushi - Deputy Hector"
"Richard Bradford - Sheriff Kyle"
"Veronica Cartwright - Hermine"
"Jeff Morris - Big Abe"
"Danny DeVito - Hog"
"Tracey Walter - Coogan"
"Luana Anders - Loretta Anderson"
"Lucy Lee Flippin - Diane Haber"
"Ed Begley, Jr. - Whitey Haber"
"Lin Shaye - Parasol Lady"
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.