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"[to Linda] I just wanted to say how sorry I am about Nick. And how, I know how much you loved him and I know that it will never be the same. I just wanted to tell you that."
"Okay. Okay!"
"[to Stanley] You wanna play games? All right, I'll play your fucking games."
"Here's to Nick."
"What is there to be afraid of in this war? The war is a joke, a silly thing...I pay my players - cash - American. However, should you prefer German marks or perhaps Swiss francs, that of course can be arranged."
"If you are really brave and lucky, I can make you very, very rich."
"When a man says no to champagne, he says no to life."
"Steven's mother: I still do not believe this. My own boy with a strange girl and not so thin, if you understand my meaning...The next thing you know, he goes to Vietnam...I do not understand, Father. I understand nothing anymore, nothing...Can you explain? Can anyone explain?"
"Steven's mother: You marry this girl, you leave her with me, and you go with these bums to Vietnam."
"Nick: Did you hear about the happy Roman? He was "GLAD HE ATE HER"!"
"Linda: I was hoping, somehow Michael, maybe you had Nick with you...He never wrote to me, he never called me."
"Axel: You're so full of shit, you're gonna float away."
"Steven: The place is great...It's like a resort...I mean they got basketball, bowling...Princess Grace came to see us the other day."
"Robert De Niro - Michael "Mike" Vronsky"
"John Cazale - Stanley "Stan" "Stosh""
"John Savage - Steven Pushkov"
"Christopher Walken - Nikonar "Nick" Chevotarevich"
"Meryl Streep - Linda"
"George Dzundza - John Welsh"
"Chuck Aspegren - Peter "Axel" Axelrod"
"Shirley Stoler - Steven's mother"
"Rutanya Alda - Angela Ludhjduravic-Pushkov"
"Pierre Segui - Julien Grinda"
"Mady Kaplan - Axel's girl"
"Amy Wright - Bridesmaid"
"Mary Ann Haenel - Stan's girl"
"Paul D'Amato - Sergeant"
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.