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"Cow Punchers solve their problems with their fist, whether it's shaking them at a disagreeable feller in a disreputable saloon or using them to punch a slightly more disagreeable feller in a slightly less reputable saloon. You've hear that Cow Punchers are in demand out West since The Cows Came Home, which stands to reason. The Cows aren't gonna punch themselves, after all."
"When you were a child, you wanted to walk so badly. You finally have."
"Well heck, I say all kinds o'things! F'r'instance: Dagnab machines, can't trust em no more'n a double-crossin' so-an'-so!"
"After you're done reading it, you donate it to a local orphanage. Soon those orphans will be able to make their escape! Go, orphans, go!"
"A wave of nausea hits you as you slide the heavy lid of the chest. Inside there is a hat. It looks... evil. And not in an abstract way... it has eyes, and the look like the eyes of a murderer. And it has teeth, which look like the teeth of an animal who would be a murderer if animals understood the concept of murder."
"Just look at this place! So much hustle! So much bustle!"
"What's new is a profund sense of longin' and loneliness."
"It feels strange to be fighting alongside demonic clowns, but I guest war makes strange bedfellows. Ugh, please ignore the fact that I just used 'demonic clowns' and 'bedfellows' in the same sentence."
"No good can come of criminals with access to hat-making machinery."
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.