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"No doll can take the place of aces back to back."
"Daddy! I got cider in my ear."
"Is it wrong to gamble or only to lose? I'd better come back for help when I'm broke."
"Among my people, being considered a chump is like losing your citizenship."
"You have wished yourself a Scarsdale Gallahad, a breakfast-eating, Brooks Brothers type. - "I'll Know""
"A one-woman mission for the personal salvation of me?"
"Luck be a lady tonight. Luck be a lady tonight. Luck, if you've ever been a lady to begin with, Luck be a lady tonight! - "Luck Be a Lady""
"A lady wouldn't leave her escort. It isn't fair, it isn't nice. A lady wouldn't wander all over the room and blow on some other guy's dice! - "Luck be a Lady Tonight""
"Obediah, that's my real name. I've never told that to anyone before."
"It's just so unusual for a successful sinner to be unhappy about sin."
"You must think I'm an awful prude, don't you?"
"If I were a bell I'd be ringing!"
"A guy without a doll? Well, if a guy does not have a doll, who would holler on him? A doll is a necessity!"
"Gettin' married ain't something you can just jump into like it was a kettle of fish! We ain't ready!"
"What do you mean? A marker isn't just a piece of paper that says, 'I.O.U. 1000 dollars signed Nathan Detroit.' It's like a pledge that a guy can't welch on it. It's like not saluting the flag! My marker's as good as gold, only Joey Biltmore don't think so!"
"I hope you get stabbed by a Studebaker!"
"Oh, I don't mind, Nathan, if you don't give me a present. It makes me feel like we were married."
"See? I told you reading don't make people go blind."
"In other words, just for waiting around for that plain little band of gold, a person can develop a cold. -"Adelaide's Lament""
"Wait until you fall in love with somebody you shouldn't! Wait till it happens to you!"
"Nicely-nicely, thank you. (whenever asked how he is)"
"I've got the horse right here, his name is Paul Revere, and here's a guy that says that if the weathers' clear, can do...can do...this guy says the horse can do. If he says the horse can do...can do...can do. -Fugue for Tinhorns"
"When a bum buys wine like a bum can't afford, you can bet that that bum is under the thumb of some little broad - "The Guy's Only Doing It for Some Doll""
"I dreamed last night, I got on the boat to heaven, and by some chance I had brought my dice along. And there I stood and I hollered 'Someone fade me', but the passengers, they knew right from wrong. For the people all said: 'sit down, sit down you're rockin' the boat. People all said sit down, sit down you're rockin' the boat. And the devil will drag you under, by the sharp lapel of your checkered coat... Sit down, sit down, sit down,sit down, sit down you're rockin' the boat. - "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat""
"Lieutenant Brannigan: Well, well, well. Look at this. The jails must be empty tonight. Can anybody be missing? Harry the Horse, Liver Lips Louie, Angie the Ox, Society Max... And here is a face for which I cannot supply a name."
"When you see a guy reach for stars in the sky, you can bet that he's doing it for some doll.. -"Guys and Dolls""
"Sky Masterson, Sarah Brown: I've never been in love before, now all at once it's you, it's you forever more... - "I've Never Been in Love Before""
"General Cartwright: I have rarely been to a meeting at any of our branches that could boast of so many evil-looking sinners."
"Benny South Street: I was always a bad guy. I was even a bad gambler. I would like to be a good guy, and a good gambler. I thank you."
"Marlon Brando - Sky Masterson"
"Frank Sinatra - Nathan Detroit"
"Jean Simmons - Sarah Brown"
"Vivian Blaine - Miss Adelaide"
"Stubby Kaye - Nicely-Nicely Johnson"
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.