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"I notice that there's a long gap in your job history and it said for 22 years you went Kerouac on everyone's ass?"
"When I was a little kid in Oregon I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper gray censorship of all our real human values but and when I discovered Buddhism and all I suddenly felt that I had lived in a previous lifetime innumerable ages ago and now because of faults and sins in that lifetime I was being degraded to a more grievous domain of existence and my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom."
"Colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization."
"By God, you're right, all those sedentary bums sitting around on pillows hearing the cry of a triumphant mountain smasher, they don't deserve it."
"See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures."
"Only one thing I'll say for the people watching television, the millions and millions of the One Eye: they're not hurting anyone"
""Pray tell us, good buddy, and don't make it muddy, who played this trick, on Harry and Dick, and why is so mean, this Eternal Scene, just what's the point, of this whole joint?" I thought maybe I could find out at last from these Dharma Bums."
"Maybe I'll be rich and work and make a lot of money and live in a big house." But a minute later: "And who wants to enslave himself to a lot of all that, though?"
"So the party was divided into three parts all the time: those in the living room listening to the hi-fi or thumbing through books, those in the yard eating and listening to the guitar music, and those on the hilltop in the shack brewing pots of tea and sitting crosslegged discussing poetry and things and the Dharma or wandering around in the high meadow to to go see the children fly kites or old ladies ride by on horseback. Every weekend was the same mild picnic, a regular classical scene of angels and dolls having a kind of flowery time in the void..."
"Who were all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me? And who was I?"
"Japhy, do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean."
"Blood Brothers"
"Boeing-Boeing"
"Bonnie and Clyde"
"The Book of Mormon"
"The Boyfriend"
"Boys From Syracuse"
"Breakfast at Tiffany's"
"Bright Lights, Big City"
"Brighton Beach Memoirs"
"Bring It On"
"Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story"
"Bugsy Malone"
"Bye Bye Birdie"
"Damn Yankees"
"Dangerous Game"
"Dear Evan Hansen"
"Death and the Maiden"
"Death of a Salesman"
"Desert Song"
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
"Don Giovanni"
"Dreamgirls"
"Drowsy Chaperone"
"Duchess of Malfi"
"Elf: The Musical"
"Escape To Margaritaville"
"Everybody's Talking About Jamie"
"Everyday Rapture"
"The Fantasticks"
"Fiddler on the Roof"
"Finding Neverland"
"Finian's Rainbow"
"Flower Drum Song"
"Forbidden Broadway"
"Forty-Second Street"
"Freaky Friday"
"Free As Air"
"Full Monty"
"Funny Girl"
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.