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"[Epitaph on the gravestone] Mr. Magorium, toy impresario, wonder aficionado and avid shoe wearer."
"I fell so completely in love with these shoes, I bought enough pairs to last my whole lifetime. This is my last pair."
"Some are important documents, others maybe doodles I never framed. I can't tell the difference."
"Pretty impressive ball, isn't it?"
"Unlikely adventures require unlikely tools."
"Light bulbs die, my sweet. I will depart."
"All stories, even the ones we love, must eventually come to an end and when they do, it's only an opportunity for another story to begin."
"You have to believe it to see it."
"If you don't believe . . . You will."
"Dustin Hoffman — Edward Magorium"
"Natalie Portman — Molly Mahoney"
"Jason Bateman — Henry "Mutant" Weston"
"Zach Mills — Eric Applebaum"
"Ted Ludzik — Bellini"
"Kiele Sanchez — Mrs. Goodman"
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.