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"I have no socks left around these holes."
"Now, Doinel, go get some water and erase those insanities, or I'll make you lick the wall, my friend."
"Doinel, if your paper is first today, it's because I've decided to give the results beginning with the worst."
"Every time I cried, my father would imitate me on his fiddle, just to drive me nuts. One day I got fed up and I knocked him out."
"[to Antoine about another boy in the reformatory] He escaped a week ago, but they got him. Around here to escape is bad enough, but getting caught is worse."
"If she drops her pen, pick it up, but don't look at her legs. Or else it will be on your record."
"I'm an unstable psychotic individual with perverted tendencies."
"Jean-Pierre Léaud - Antoine Doinel"
"Claire Maurier - Gilberte Doinel - la mère d'Antoine"
"Albert Rémy - Julien Doinel"
"Guy Decomble - 'Petite Feuille', the French teacher"
"Georges Flamant - Mr. Bigey"
"Patrick Auffay - René"
"Daniel Couturier - Betrand Mauricet"
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.