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"[to Althea Brockett, about Lionel Dillard] Jeez, what an asshole."
"[to Sofia Crisp] I don't know what's real and what's not. That's never been my strong suit."
"I understand what it's like to want to leave a problem behind."
"In these fantasies, Henry Follet is played by a handsome guy — with biceps. Can you imagine that — where your self esteem has to be? Man, I'd just like to move the guy to the point where he gets to appear in his own fantasies."
"[to Skip Skipperton] I am not now, nor have I ever been, a psychologist."
"[to Skip Skipperton] I noticed something. For some reason, probably because I was too stoned to talk, everywhere I went people would talk to me. Tell me everything. Their problems, their inner most thoughts. Sometimes they needed advice, but most of the people just wanted someone to listen."
"In a free society you are what you say you are. If you screwed up on life, sometimes you can get another shot."
"[about her symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.]] It's almost too exhausting to tell you about my exhaustion. I didn't really want to come. I'm not hopeful right now."
"God, it seems like years. I'm embarrassed by it. Before this happened — when I'd hear people talk about this kind of thing — I thought it was bullshit."
"You're shockingly honest. That's what makes you great. I've never had a man treat me this way. With you I feel really listened to."
"Thanks to this therapy I now know what I am looking for. I need to find a man like you. Not one who's treating me of course. And I'm going to do it dammit, you've given me the confidence."
"I have taken all my feelings of gratitude and relief and transferred them onto you. I have taken all those warm, grateful emotions, and confused them with feelings for you, so that now I am under the delusion that — I am in love with you."
"Do you understand how I might be a little resentful that this so-called love I'm feeling is totally bogus and just a pathetic case of transference?"
"Nessa: This shrink school you went to, did you hear about it in an infomercial?"
"Lilly: I watched 20/20, it was shocking! Did you know the government is wasteful?"
"Martin Brocket: Have you come across a bigger shithead than my stepfather?"
"Althea Brockett: Why do I feel so elated? Am I in denial? You know what this feels like? I know my time's up, but I've got to get this out while I've got a hold of it! ... When I was in high school the thing I wanted most when I was stuck in class, the thing that I was desperately in pursuit of, was a hall pass. That's all I ever wanted. I loved moving freely around the school while everybody else was trapped in there. That's how I feel right now. Like I have some giant all day hall pass."
"Skip Skipperton: [to Lilly] I may be young, but Doc can tell you — I'm very immature."
"Dr. Ernest Delbanco: No one can escape the fear of death. It is, as William James put it, "the worm at the core," and try as we may to forget or ignore our own mortality, the skull will grin in at the banquet."
"Some towns have all the fun."
"You don't have to be crazy to fall in love...but it helps."
"Loren Dean - Dr. Mumford"
"Hope Davis - Sofie Crisp"
"Jason Lee - Skip Skipperton"
"Alfre Woodard - Lily"
"Mary McDonnell - Althea Brockett"
"Pruitt Taylor Vince - Henry Follett"
"Zooey Deschanel - Nessa Watkins"
"Martin Short - Lionel Dillard"
"David Paymer - Dr. Ernest Delbanco"
"Jane Adams - Dr. Phyllis Sheeler"
"Kevin Tighe and Dana Ivey - Mr. and Mrs. Crisp"
"Ted Danson - Jeremy Brockett"
"Jason Ritter - Martin Brockett"
"Elisabeth Moss - Katie Brockett"
"Robert Stack - Himself"
"Simon Helberg - College Roommate"
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.