unearths some literary gems.
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To hell with Chapter 19. Every damn book has a Chapter 19.
[via Encyclopedia of American Humorists]
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From The Rest of My Life, by Carolyn Wells:
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If I begin a book or if a friend begins to tell me a story, my thoughts leap to the inevitable or probable denouement.
[Also via the Encyc. of Amer. Humorists, which states that "Carolyn Wells had a 'leaping mind.'"]