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In all probability the human genome project will, someday, find that i carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts i still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. future scientists will call it the pollyanna syndrome, and if forced to guess, i'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.
-Chuck Palahniuk
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In All Probability The Human Genome Project

Chuck Palahniuk
In all probability the human genome project will, someday, find that i carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts i still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. future scientists will call it the pollyanna syndrome, and if forced to guess, i'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.
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