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"[voice-over] Hill House has stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Within, walls continue upright, bricks meet, floors are firm, and doors are sensibly shut. Silence lies steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House. And we who walk here... walk alone."
"God! God! Whose hand was I holding?"
"Can't you feel it? It's alive... watching."
"Human nature could certainly stand some improvement."
"[voice-over] An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stood for 90 years and might stand for 90 more. Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there... walked alone."
"A closed mind is the worst defense against the supernatural... If it happens to you, your liable to have that shut door in your mind ripped right off it's hinges!"
"It was an evil house from the beginning - a house that was born bad."
"Look, I know the supernatural is something that isn't supposed to happen, but it does happen."
"Poor Nell. You look like Death."
"What would you call this place? Fun-o-rama?"
"Only one way to argue with a woman Doc... Don't."
"[referring to Hill House] It ought to be burned down... and the ground sowed with salt."
"Doc, I'll let you have the house cheap!"
"You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror."
"SCREAM...no one will hear you! RUN...and the silent foosteps will follow, for in Hill House the dead are restless!"
"Julie Harris — Eleanor "Nell" Lance"
"Claire Bloom — Theodora "Theo""
"Richard Johnson — Dr. John Markway"
"Russ Tamblyn — Luke Sanderson"
"Fay Compton — Mrs. Sanderson"
"Rosalie Crutchley — Mrs. Dudley"
"Lois Maxwell — Grace Markway"
"Valentine Dyall — Mr. Dudley"
"Diane Clare — Carrie Fredericks"
"Ronald Adam — Eldridge Harper"
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.