Quotes
 Happiness hates the timid! So does science! Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
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Man`s loneliness is but his fear of life.
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Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
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I love every bone in their heads.
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When you`re 50 you start thinking about things you haven`t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it`s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
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When men make gods, there is no God!
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Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
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One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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O`Neill`s final words were reportedly "Born in a hotel room, and God dammit, died in one!"
Trivia
Won a record four Pulitzer Prizes for drama: in 1920, for Beyond the Horizon (1975) (TV); in 1921, for Anna Christie (1930); in 1928, for Strange Interlude (1932); and in 1956, posthumously, for Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962).
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Father-in-law of Charles Chaplin.
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Won two Tony Awards in 1957 for "Long Day's Journey into Night:" as Best Author (Dramatic) and as author of the Best Play winner. In 1959, he was also nominated as author of Best Play nominee "A Touch of the Poet." All of O'Neill's Tony recognition was posthumous.
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Son of actor James O'Neill.
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Pictured on the $1.00 US postage stamp in the original Prominent Americans series, issued 16 October 1967.
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Father of Oona Chaplin.
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Son, with Agnes Boulton, Shane (born 1919).
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Was asked by MGM, in 1932, to write a screenplay for Jean Harlow, whom he did not admire, and to cable back his response in twenty words or less, collect. His response read thus: "No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. O'Neill." This incident was incorporated, almost verbatim, into Harold Robbins' roman a clef on early Hollywood, "The Carpetbaggers.".
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Daughter, with Agnes Boulton, Oona (born 1925).
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His play, Mourning Becomes Electra performed at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton, was awarded the 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Revival of 2003.
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Was the 1936 Nobel Laureate in Literature, the second American so honored.
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Great-grandfather of Dolores Chaplin, Carmen Chaplin, Aurélia Thiérrée, and James Thiérrée.
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Was awarded the 1936 Nobel prize in literature.
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Born under the astrological sign of Libra. Though astrology does not overtly figure in his work, his personal library (now preserved at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) contained a book, "From Astrology: Your Place Among the Stars" by Evangeline Smith Adams (New York: Mead and Company, 1930) personally inscribed to him by the author.
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Was expelled from Princeton University for throwing a beer bottle through the office window of the University's President. That was future United States President Woodrow Wilson.
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Son, with Kathleen Jenkins, Eugene Jr. (born 1910).
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Many consider him the father of the modern American theatre; most of his plays were brutally realistic. They were all completely free of the stilted, melodramatic, overwritten language used in American nineteenth-century melodramas, and which seems unintentionally hilarious to modern audiences. His style, in one way or another, influenced all American dramatists who were either his contemporaries or who came after him.
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Grandfather of Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Chaplin, 'Jane', 'Eugene', Michael Chaplin, Victoria Chaplin and 'Annette-Emilie'.
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Cause of death, previously thought to be Parkinson's disease, revised in 2000 after further study of the autopsy report.
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 338-348. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
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He left several unpublished plays and an autobiography. His will stipulated that these were not to be produced until 25 years after his death.
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Disowned and cut off communication from his daughter, Oona Chaplin, after she married Charles Chaplin, who was exactly six months his junior, in age.
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Was expelled from Princeton University for throwing a beer bottle through the office window of the University`s President. That was future United States President Woodrow Wilson.
Won a record four Pulitzer Prizes for drama: in 1920, for Beyond the Horizon (1975) (TV); in 1921, for Anna Christie (1930); in 1928, for Strange Interlude (1932); and in 1956, posthumously, for Long Day`s Journey Into Night (1962).
Was the 1936 Nobel Laureate in Literature, the second American so honored.
Born under the astrological sign of Libra. Though astrology does not overtly figure in his work, his personal library (now preserved at Yale University`s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) contained a book, `From Astrology: Your Place Among the Stars`
by Evangeline Smith Adams (New York: Mead and Company, 1930) personally inscribed to him by the author.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 338-348. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Won two Tony Awards in 1957 for `Long Day`s Journey into Night:` as Best Author (Dramatic) and as author of the Best Play winner. In 1959, he was also nominated as author of Best Play nominee `A Touch of the Poet.` All of O`Neill`s Tony recognition was posthumous.
Disowned and cut off communication from his daughter, Oona Chaplin, after she married Charles Chaplin, who was exactly six months his junior, in age.
Was asked by MGM, in 1932, to write a screenplay for Jean Harlow, whom he did not admire, and to cable back his response in twenty words or less, collect. His response read thus: "No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. O`Neill." This incident was incorporated, almost verbatim, into Harold Robbins` roman a clef on early Hollywood, `The Carpetbaggers.`.
His play, Mourning Becomes Electra performed at the Royal National Theatre: Lyttelton, was awarded the 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Revival of 2003.
Many consider him the father of the modern American theatre; most of his plays were brutally realistic. They were all completely free of the stilted, melodramatic, overwritten language used in American nineteenth-century melodramas, and which seems unintentionally hilarious to modern audiences. His style, in one way or another, influenced all American dramatists who were either his contemporaries or who came after him.
Was awarded the 1936 Nobel prize in literature.
He left several unpublished plays and an autobiography. His will stipulated that these were not to be produced until 25 years after his death.
Father of Oona Chaplin.
Father-in-law of Charles Chaplin.
Cause of death, previously thought to be Parkinson`s disease, revised in 2000 after further study of the autopsy report.
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