Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's ca… - Eugene O'Neill

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Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East which lures me in the books I've read, the need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on — in quest of the secret which is hidden over there, beyond the horizon?

Eugene O'Neill

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Eugene O'Neill (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature.

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Native Name: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Alternative Names: Eugene O’Neill • Eugene Gladstone O’Neill • Eugene G. O'Neill

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