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"I was practically running the motel single-handedly by the time I was 15. I was the man of the house, she used to call me that. She depended on me, especially when she was scared. She was scared to death of thunder and lightning."
"Just me and my trusty umbrella."
"All that faith and no potatoes."
"You get in the car, I'm gonna get rid of the past for good."
"Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood!"
"Don't you have any respect for the dead?"
"Let me out of here! Norman! Do you hear me, boy? Let me out!"
"Gloria: You've got a tongue like an elephant's memory."
"Connie Bates: No, Norman. No more blood, please. No more blood."
"Fran Ambrose: [on the lack of information of girls commiting matricide] Maybe girls are too smart to get caught."
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.