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"Fate chained me to evil, for that I must pay the Penalty. - That is a great puzzle. Perhaps I am going to see it solved."
"[to Barbara] Some excellent judges think that I resemble Satan."
"Do I look like Satan? Before I am through with her and her father, they'll think I'm the devil himself."
"Laughter burns a cripple like acid."
"Once before a woman surfeited me with her caresses. She's dead!"
"You have worked in the dark long enough - this is the plan I have been developing for two years. At twelve noon on that day I shall loot the City of San Francisco. Your ten thousand foreign malcontents will filter into the city in small detachments. The signal will be an explosion. By fire and riots I shall draw the police and military into the suburbs. The heart of the city will be left defenseless - ours to loot at will. And then we shall vanish with our treasure."
"Everything comes to him who waits."
"I am the unhappiest beast in the world."
"Rose, my dear! Under the piano, my darling - we'll have some music. I have a feeling I shall waft you into Heaven."
"I've waked from a terrible dream! I was a devil - - I did things that I shudder to think of!"
"And I shall walk as men walk. I shall be the master of a city! And for my mangled years the city shall pay me - - - - with the pleasures of a Nero and the powers of a Caesar!"
"I could get him for theft, arson, murder - - but his criminal machine would still grind on. Through the Master I must reach his slaves - the underground powers of the Reds. He's gathered up his dance hall girls and he's put them to work in his house - making hats - thousands of hats. I must know why!"
"In time the man would mangle the soul of the daughter, even as the father had mangled the body of the man."
"Blizzard, master of San Francisco's underworld, legless, deformed—the weirdest character ever presented on the screen—you'll never forget him."
"Charles Clary — Dr. Ferris"
"Doris Pawn — Barbary Nell"
"James Pier Mason — Frisco Pete"
"Lon Chaney — Blizzard"
"Milton Ross — Lichtenstein"
"Ethel Grey Terry — Rose"
"Kenneth Harlan — Dr. Wilmot Allen"
"Claire Adams — Barbara Ferris"
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.