“I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.”

—  Wilson Mizner

On his deathbed.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
On Death and Dying

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