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"Well, you know we don't love each other anymore. We're just habits, bad habits...And when love's gone, there's nothing left but admiration and respect."
"I don't begin and end with a smelter, you know."
"You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything."
"You're married to me; that's like saying, you're blind to me. For a long time, I've been a part of you, just something to snuggle up to and keep you warm at night, like a blanket, but you can't see me any more than you can see the back of your neck."
"You're not being rude, dear, you're just being yourself."
"Chivalry is not only dead, it's decomposed."
"No, I'm not my grandfather, of course. He's dead, anyway."
"Staterooms are un-American."
"That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous."
"Tipping is un-American."
"You know Maude, somebody meeting you for the first time, not knowing you were cracked, might get the wrong impression of you."
"That's my wife, you dumb cluck!"
"Captain, we should have met sooner, and if I'd seen you around, we would have!"
"Hello, Snoodles, where'd you get the pretty girl?"
"Look at that very handsome man. I wonder who he is. I don't think I've seen him around before. I thought I knew all the handsome men in this village."
"Of course, I'm crazy, I'll marry anybody."
"You will care for me, though. I grow on people. Like moss."
"Claudette Colbert — Geraldine 'Gerry' Jeffers"
"Joel McCrea — Tom Jeffers ('Capt. McGlew')"
"Mary Astor — The Princess Centimillia"
"Rudy Vallée — John D. Hackensacker III a.k.a. "snoodles""
"Sig Arno — Toto"
"Robert Warwick — Mr. Hinch, Ale and Quail Club"
"Arthur Stuart Hull — Mr. Osmond"
"Torben Meyer — Dr. Kluck"
"Jimmy Conlin — Mr. Asweld, Ale and Quail Club"
"Victor Potel — Mr. McKeewie"
"William Demarest — First Member Ale and Quail Club"
"Jack Norton — Second Member Ale and Quail Club"
"Robert Greig — Third Member Ale and Quail Club"
"Roscoe Ates — Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club"
"Dewey Robinson — Fifth Member Ale and Quail Club"
"Robert Dudley — Wienie King"
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.