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"I can't stand it when a man has dirty shoes."
"Getting married after two days of dating is just the top of frivolity. We need to think it over carefully. Five days or so."
"In the family, a man should be higher in position. If the wife gets more salary or higher in office, it's not a family."
"A person is given away by two circumstances: if he puts the stress on words incorrectly and if he asks stupid questions. Your stresses are okay."
"Don't teach me how to live, better help me financially."
"Yes, he is clearly not disfigured by intelligence. Why did you need to go to Moscow, you could have found someone like that in the village."
"If you love, love a queen! If you lose, lose a million!"
"Understand the matter, we live in Moscow! And Moscow is a big lottery. Here you can win everything at once."
"My machine is broken, which prints money."
"Lyudmila's workmate. To become a General's wife, you must marry a Lieutenant."
"Gosha's workmate, scientist. (about Gosha) In front of you, comrades, is a locksmith with a capital L."
"Nikolai. (to Katerina, Lyudmila and Antonina, going in search of Gosha) Let everyone into the apartment. Don't let anyone out. If there's resistance, open fire."
"Katerina. What if they ask me something? I'll blurt out."
"Lyudmila. (about Nikolai's oldtime car) When are you going to sell it for scrap?"
"Nikolai's mother. And how many people do you have in subordination?"
"Gosha. (sitting in suburb train vis-a-vis Katerina, with very dirty shoes) Yes. I can't stand dirty shoes myself."
"Katerina. If I don’t wear a wedding ring, that doesn’t mean anything."
"Alexandra. Who is he?"
"(after a fight with hooligans)"
"Lyudmila. (crying) And what did you say: "It is impossible to fall in love at our age, you see all the flaws in a person.""
"(First conversation between Gosha and Nikolai. Nikolai enters the room. Gosha silently pours Nikolai a glass of vodka. Nikolai silently drinks without haste, then takes a tiny piece of bread from the plate, sniffs it, and puts it back. Gosha gives Nikolai his hand.)"
"Nikolai. (very drunken) You said that if the wife has a higher salary, this is not a family. Well, how can she confess something!"
"Nikolai. (very drunken and disheveled, to Tonia and Lyudmila) Well! I said I would deliver him, and so I delivered!"
"Katerina. How long have I been looking for you..."
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.