This playwright couldn't get over the irony, when he exclaimed, “I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel room and, goddamn it, dying in a hotel room.”

While suffering from Parkinson's disease, playwright Eugene O'Neill was hit by a bout of pneumonia in 1953 while residing at Boston's Hotel Shelton. He was born in New York City in 1888 in a hotel room near Times Square, leading to his rye observation when in his death throes, “I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel room and, goddamn it, dying in a hotel room!"

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