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"[Ship is sailing out of New York City] We must've been the only Irish family to be saying good bye to the statue of liberty rather than hello."
"If I were in America, I could say "I love you, dad", the way they do in the films. But in Limerick they'd laugh at you. In Limerick you are only allowed to say you love God, and babies, and horses that win. Anything else is softness in the head."
"In the name of the father, the son and the holy toast."
"[Commenting on traditional Irish dancing] If my mates saw me making a pure eejit out of myself at the Irish dancing, I'd be disgrace forever. I want to be Fred Astaire. Irish dancers look like they have steel rods stuck up their arses."
"[[Frank is lying in bed recovering from fever in hospital and a doctor sitting near him has farted] And then Dr. Campbell came in and held my hand. It was then that I knew I was going to get better because a doctor would never fart in the presence of a dying boy."
"Also, Mikey is the expert in the lane on girls' bodies... and dirty things in general."
"[Frank is in bed watching his mother, who is also watching him as she starts stepping up the stairs in Laman Griffin's residence] I thought mam would come and kiss me good night, to say thank you for sticking up for her. But no, she went to him."
"Everyone I know and half the poor of Limerick are here. They all owed the old bitch money. Well, not anymore. [Throws ledger book into the River Shannon]"
"[Frank throws up his communion breakfast] I've got God in me backyard!"
"We all miss Malachy. He's, uh, miss him? He... He's gone to join the army band! Playing the bugle. The bugle? Can you imagine that, playin' the bugle? Playin' the fool, more like."
"[At dancing lessons] Would you stop the frowning, McCourt?! You've a face on you like a pound of tripe!"
"[Puts a wafer on Frank's tongue] Will you stop your clucking and get back to your seat?! Corpus Christi."
"[To Angela] Give me a fag, woman. I'm telling you, that boy is a little shite!"
"Emily Watson as Angela McCourt (Frank's mother)"
"Robert Carlyle as Malachy (Frank's father)"
"Joe Breen as Young Frank"
"Ciaran Owens as Middle Frank"
"Michael Legge as Older Frank"
"Ronnie Masterson as Grandma Sheehan"
"Pauline McLynn as Aunt Aggie"
"Liam Carney as Uncle Pa Keating"
"Eanna MacLiam as Uncle Pat"
"Andrew Bennett as Narrator (Geriatric Frank)"
"Shane Murray-Corcoran as Young Malachy (as Shane Murray Corcoran)"
"Devon Murray as Middle Malachy"
"Peter Halpin as Older Malachy"
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.