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"So I was in Boston, I just ended up there. Seemed far enough away. They come to me then, it just happened, you know how that is, things happen and other things happen and it's your life. They were looking to get somebody to go undercover here, they wanted to get somebody who knew the Kitchen who was known. And I coulda said no but I thought I could do it. It was like this opportunity in which I could look the entire thing in the eye. And you'd be gone, or married, forgot about me I thought. And Jack, I would leave him out of it. But it was only an idea. Nothing to do with the truth. It was just a fuckin' idea like... You believe in the angels or the saints or there's such a thing as a state of grace. And you believe it, but it's got nothing to do with reality. It just an idea. I mean you got your ideas and you got reality, and they're all... they're all fucked up."
"Nobody's doin' nothin' to nobody. It's all just happenin', see?"
"She thinks I'm an asshole. And if she thinks that about me, what in the long run is she going to think about you?"
"Either they forgot about us, or this entire fuckin' neighborhood better get ready to duck."
"[at the church] I came here, I knelt down, I thought about Stevie as hard as I could... and I hoped it was praying."
"A family ripped apart by violence. A love corrupted by betrayal. A friendship stained by blood."
"The Irish mob in Hell's Kitchen."
"Sean Penn - Terry Noonan"
"Ed Harris - Frankie Flannery"
"Gary Oldman - Jackie Flannery"
"Robin Wright - Kathleen Flannery"
"John Turturro - Nick"
"John C. Reilly - Stevie McGuire"
"R. D. Call - Pat Nicholson"
"Joe Viterelli - Borelli"
"Burgess Meredith - Finn"
"Marco St. John - Jimmy Cavello"
"Mo Gaffney - Maureen"
"Deirdre O'Connell - Irene"
"Thomas G. Waites - Frankie's man"
"Brian Burke (actor) - Frankie's man"
"Michael Cumpsty - Frankie's man"
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.