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"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."
"Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!"
"[to the court, after being found guilty of murder] I shall see you ALL soon - very soon."
"Business is a ruthless business, my dear."
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles."
"It's a blundering world and a very sad one, yet kindness can make it beautiful."
"A Comedy of Murders."
"A comedy of murders. The story of a modern French Bluebeard!"
"New hat. new coat, new pants, new shoes, new laughs, but the same great Charles Chaplin!"
"Hysterical laughter! Haunting romance! Shocking drama!"
"Chaplin's Bluebeard Comedy is a Killer!"
"Charlie Chaplin - Henri Verdoux"
"Martha Raye - Annabella Bonheur"
"Isobel Elsom - Marie Grosnay"
"Margaret Hoffman - Lydia Floray"
"Marilyn Nash - The Girl"
"Barbara Slater - the flower seller"
"Irving Bacon - Pierre Couvais"
"Edwin Mills - Jean Couvais"
"Virginia Brissac - Carlotta Couvais"
"Almira Sessions - Lena Couvais"
"Eula Morgan - Phoebe Couvais"
"William Frawley - Jean La Salle"
"Mady Correll - Mona, wife of Verdoux"
"Robert Lewis - Maurice Bottello"
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.