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"[Having slept with Joe's wife, Hud blames it on Lonnie - who has just come to collect Hud. Joe is ready to murder Lonnie on the spot, but Hud prevents him from doing so] Lay off him, he's diabetic; don't worry, I'll cool his temperature but good. [to Lonnie, as they're driving away] Relax, Fantan; you'll be able to charge a stud fee for yourself, after that story gets around town."
"If you don't look out for yourself, the only helping hand you'll ever get is when they lower your pine box."
"It happens to everybody - Nobody gets out of life alive."
"You know something Fantan? This world is so full of crap, a man's gonna get into it sooner or later whether he's careful or not."
"[to Lonnie] Boys with impure thoughts break into acne. Keep it up and you'll see."
"It don't take long to kill things, not like it takes to grow."
"You don't care about people Hud, you don't give a damn about 'em. Oh, you got all that charm goin' for ya, and it makes the youngsters want to be like ya. That's the shame of it 'cause you don't value nothin', you don't respect nothin'. You keep no check on your appetites at all. You live just for yourself. And that makes you not fit to live with."
"Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong."
"The man with the barbed wire soul!"
"After lovin' Hud liked fightin' best...after fightin' Hud liked lovin' best!"
"It's truth you will understand!"
"Paul Newman - Hud Bannon"
"Melvyn Douglas - Homer Bannon"
"Patricia Neal - Alma Brown"
"Brandon de Wilde - Lon 'Lonnie' Bannon"
"John Ashley - Hermy"
"Whit Bissell - Mr. Burris"
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.