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"[First lines] On the afternoon of August 18, 1973, five young people in a Volkswagen van ran out of gas on a farm road in South Texas. Four of them were never seen again. The next morning the one survivor, Sally Hardesty-Enright, was picked up on a roadside, blood-caked and screaming murder. Sally said she had broken out of a window in Hell. The girl babbled a mad tale: a cannibal family in an isolated farmhouse... chainsawed fingers and bones... her brother, her friends hacked up for barbecue... chairs made of human skeletons... Then she sank into catatonia. Texas lawmen mounted a month-long manhunt, but could not locate the macabre farmhouse. They could find no killers and no victims. No facts; no crime. Officially, on the records, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre never happened. But during the last 13 years, over and over again reports of bizarre, grisly chainsaw mass-murders have persisted all across the state of Texas. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre has not stopped. It haunts Texas. It seems to have no end."
"Peel that pig and slice him thick."
"Dog will hunt. Get that bitch, Leatherface. Get that bitch! [laughs] Dog will hunt."
"Burn her like a rat. Burn her like a rat."
"[When swinging for Stretch, Leatherface hits Chop Top on his head with the chainsaw by accident, exposing his metal place cover] Her, not me you dumbass! Leatherface, you bitch! Look what you did to my Sonny Bono wig do... oh, goddamn I can't believe it! You gonna have to buy me a new plate cover! You gonna have to buy me a new plate cover, Leatherface! Oh... I'm gonna have to go back to the VA hospital to get me a new plate cover!"
"[hitting L.G. in the head with a hammer] Incoming mail!"
"[to Leatherface] You have one choice, boy: sex or the saw. Sex is, well, nobody knows. But the saw, the saw is family."
"[when asked the secret of his successful chili] No secret, it's the meat. Don't skimp on the meat. I've got a real good eye for prime meat. Runs in the family."
"I wouldn't wish this rotten life off on a one-eyed ferret with mange."
"The small businessman... always, always, always gets it in the ass."
"You coonshits, you fudge packers, you'll be the death of me yet!"
"It's a dog eat dog world and from where I sit there just ain't enough damn dogs!"
"What the hell's going on here? That the American way of entering a man's home?"
"I love this town. This town loves prime meat."
"Just had another cursin' caller. Your little ass is gonna be in big trouble with that tape girl."
"After a decade of silence... The buzzz is back!"
"Dennis Hopper — Texas Ranger Lt. Boude "Lefty" Enright"
"Caroline Williams — Vanita "Stretch" Brock"
"Jim Siedow — Drayton Sawyer"
"Bill Moseley — "Chop Top" Sawyer"
"Lou Perryman — L. G. McPeters"
"Bill Johnson — Leatherface"
"Chris Douridas — Gunner/Rick"
"Ken Evert — Grandpa Sawyer"
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.