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"If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there."
"I guess you could say I went west. You know, the way of Horatio Alger, Davy Crockett, the Donner Party..."
"When I left, I joined the army, and when I took the service exam my psych profile fit a certain... moral flexibility would be the only way to describe it... and I was loaned out to a CIA-sponsored program, and we sort of found each other. That's how it works."
"I know what I do isn't... moral, per se..."
"Dr. Oatman, please pick up, pick up! It's Martin Blank! I, I'm standing where my, uh, living room was and it's not here because my house is gone and it's an Ultimart! You can never go home again, Oatman... but I guess you can shop there."
"I just honestly don't know what I have in common with those people anymore... or with anyone, really. I mean, they'll all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they'll have made themselves a part of something, and they can talk about what they do. And what am I going to say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?""
"[to himself, rehearsing] Hi! I'm Martin Blank, do you remember me? I'm not married, I don't have any kids, and I'd blow your head off if someone paid me enough."
"A thousand innocent people get killed every day, but a millionaire's pet gets detonated and you're marked for life."
"Everybody's coming back to take stock of their lives. You know what I say? Leave your livestock alone."
"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's... well... broken."
"People say forgive and forget. Yeah, I don't know. I say forget about forgiving and just accept. And get the hell out of town."
"Where are all the good men dead? In the heart or in the head?"
"[Martin gives Debi flowers] I'll go put these in some rubbing alcohol."
"See, kid, this is what I'm talking about. We could be working together again, for God's sake. You know? Making big money, killing important people!"
"Hey, hey, bing bing bing bing bang! POPCORN!"
"Easy there, chief. I don't see hollow-point wound care on the menu."
"Uh-oh! Smells like a wedding! You're breaking my heart down here, Blank! I can't aim through the tears!"
"Like I'm gonna put a bullet hole in your FUCKIN' forehead and I'm gonna FUCK the brain hole!"
"Marcella: Sir, it's out of my hands. The gods want you to go back home, and they want you to delete someone while you're there."
"Paul Spericki: I'll see you at the "I've-Peaked-and-I'm-Kidding-Myself" party."
"Agent Steve Lardner: You want to kill the good guy but not be the bad guy. It doesn't work like that. You've got to wait until the bad guy kills the good guy. Then when you kill the bad guy, you're the good guy."
"Ultimart Clerk: [after the convenience store blows up] No, I'm NOT all right! I'm hurt, I'm pissed... I gotta find a new job!"
"Bob Destepello: You wanna do some blow?"
"Paul Spericki: Wow. Just looking for a little validation for my life but apparently came up SHORT!"
"John Cusack - Martin Blank"
"Alan Arkin - Dr. Oatman"
"Joan Cusack - Marcella"
"Dan Aykroyd - Mr. Grocer"
"Minnie Driver - Debi Newberry"
"Jeremy Piven - Paul Spericki"
"Hank Azaria - Agent Steve Lardner"
"K. Todd Freeman - Agent Kenneth McCullers"
"Benny Urquidez - Felix La Pubelle"
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.