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"From the moment I slapped eyes on this hombre, I smelled trouble. And re-fried beans."
"Lord... whatever I've done to piss you off... if you could just get me out of this and somehow let me know what it was I promise to rectify the situation."
"You thought that was fast? I thought it was fast. Well was it?"
"If I can't touch you, I can touch your shirt and dream."
"Zane Cooper: I've never committed a cold blooded murder in my life, and I'm not about to. Not till I find Maverick."
"Joseph: Yeah, I know. You know the next time you people come and drive us off our land I'm gonna find a nice piece of swamp that's so God-awful, maybe then you'll leave us the hell alone."
"Angel: Almost got hung once myself. Didn't care for it much."
"Lead Bank Robber: I'm getting too old for this shit."
"The greatest gambler in the West has finally met his match."
"In their hands, a deck of cards was the only thing more dangerous than a gun."
"Mel Gibson - Bret Maverick, Jr."
"Jodie Foster - Mrs. Annabelle Bransford"
"James Garner - Marshall Zane Cooper"
"Graham Greene - Joseph"
"Alfred Molina - Angel"
"James Coburn - Commodore Duvall"
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.