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"In every man's life, there are pinpoints of time that govern his destiny."
"Oh, sure, sure. I know—there must be some mistake. And poor Nick is innocent, and what a heel I am to be sitting here playing chess when he needs me. Well, you're wrong, honey. If he's innocent, this is the first time."
"I can still teach you a few, kid. You're just a tin-horn thug, and you always will be. You haven't got the guts to be anything else!"
"Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, ten will spring up to take his place, a hundred, a thousand. Until we wipe out the slums and rebuild 'em, knock on any door and you may find Nick Romano."
"Live fast, die young, have a good-looking corpse."
"You wanna do something for me? Remember me in your prayers."
"What I used to say still goes. Live fast, die young... and have a good-looking corpse."
"Sunshine Jackson: How can a guy be happy and broke at the same time?"
"Humphrey Bogart - Andrew Morton"
"John Derek - Nick Romano"
"George Macready - Dist. Atty. Kerman"
"Allene Roberts - Emma"
"Candy Toxton - Adele Morton (credited as Susan Perry)"
"Mickey Knox - Vito"
"Barry Kelley - Judge Drake"
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.