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"Dying together's even more personal than living together."
"We're not like you! You're made of iron, we're just flesh and blood! Hungry and thirsty flesh and blood!"
"[to the delirious Gus] There's Rosie! She's waiting for you! [Willy pushes Gus overboard]"
"[seeing a bejewelled Connie in a fur coat as he enters the lifeboat] Connie! Did you come from the freighter or the Stork Club?"
"My name is Schmidt, but I changed it to Smith. That's what I got against these guys more than anything else. They make me ashamed of the name I was born with. I got a lot of relatives in Germany. For all I know this guy may be one of them. I say throw him to the sharks!"
"Who goes Primitive first...A man...Or a woman...adrift in an open boat?"
"What happens when six men and three women are alone in an open boat?"
"Six men and three women — against the sea and each other."
"Tallulah Bankhead - Constance "Connie" Porter"
"William Bendix - Gus Smith"
"Walter Slezak - Willi"
"Mary Anderson - Alice MacKenzie"
"John Hodiak - John Kovac"
"Henry Hull - Charles D. "Ritt" Rittenhouse"
"Heather Angel - Mrs. Higgins"
"Hume Cronyn - Stanley "Sparks" Garrett"
"Canada Lee - George "Joe" Spencer"
"William Yetter Jr. - German sailor"
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.