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"I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows."
"I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe. In that order. I want to know what I am, not what I should be."
"No one gets moral unless they're trying to get something or get out of something."
"[to Emily] Well, you're a good woman. You've done the morally right thing. God save us all from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half."
"Why did Emily call Charlie the most immoral man she'd ever met?"
"Swinging's their game and London will never be the same!"
"James Garner - Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. "Charlie" Madison"
"Julie Andrews - Emily Barham"
"Melvyn Douglas - Admiral William Jessup"
"James Coburn - Lt. Cmdr. Paul "Bus" Cummings"
"Joyce Grenfell - Mrs. Barham"
"Keenan Wynn - Old Sailor"
"Edward Binns - Admiral Thomas Healy"
"Liz Fraser - Sheila"
"William Windom - Captain Harry Spaulding"
"John Crawford - Chief Petty Officer Paul Adams"
"Douglas Henderson - Captain Marvin Ellender"
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.