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"She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who'd take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle."
"I caught the blackjack right behind my ear. A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had no bottom. I felt pretty good - like an amputated leg."
"'Okay Marlowe,' I said to myself. 'You're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough - like putting your pants on.'"
"[about his gun] That's just part of my clothes. I hardly ever shoot anybody with it."
"Now this is beginning to make sense, in a screwy sort of a way. I get dragged in and get money shoved at me. I get pushed out and get money shoved at me. Everybody pushes me in, everybody pushes me out. Nobody wants me to DO anything. Okay, put a check in the mail. I cost a lot not to do anything. I get restless. Throw in a trip to Mexico."
"He was doubled up on his face in that bag-of-old-clothes position that always means the same thing: he had been killed by an amateur. Or, by somebody who wanted it to look like an amateur job. Nobody else would hit a man that many times with a sap."
"Skip the water. Make that one with scotch. It'll save time."
"I don't know what you talked him into. Was it murder or something serious?"
"You shouldn't kiss a girl when you're wearing that gun... leaves a bruise."
"Lt. Randall: You're not a detective, you're a slot machine. You'd slit your own throat for 6 bits plus tax."
"Haunted by a lovely face... hunted for another's crime!"
"A night of murder the police won't let him forget! The only key to his safety... a woman's face he can't remember!"
"Two-fisted, Hardboiled, Terrific!"
"An original Philip Marlowe mystery"
"Dick Powell - Philip Marlowe"
"Claire Trevor - Helen Grayle/Velma Valento"
"Anne Shirley - Ann Grayle"
"Otto Kruger - Jules Amthor"
"Mike Mazurki - Moose Malloy"
"Miles Mander - Mr. Grayle"
"Don Douglas - Police Lt. Randall"
"Douglas Walton - Lindsay Marriott"
"Ralf Harolde - Dr. Sonderborg"
"Esther Howard - Jessie Florian"
"Ernie Adams - bartender at "Florian's""
"George Anderson - detective"
"Ralph Dunn - detective"
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.