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“When I'm dying, don't let a priest or Protestant minister or Salvation Army captain near me. Let me die in dignity. Keep it as simple and brief as possible. No fuss, no man of God there. If there is a God, I'll see him and we'll talk things over.”

Eugene O'Neill, instructions to his wife quoted by biographer Louis Shaeffer, cited by Warren Allen Smith in Who's Who in Hell.

Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, and four Pulitzer Prizes for Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928) Long Day's Journey into Night, written in 1939, but awarded posthumously in 1957. Some of his other works include: Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), More Stately Mansions (1935-41), The Iceman Cometh (1936), and A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943). 

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