The Art of Unhappiness

Why are creative types skeptical of joy?  Because somebody has to be.

It gets exhausting, this constant goad to joy.  If you’re not smiling—after we made all those wonderful pills and cell-phone plans!—what’s wrong with you?  Not to smile is un-American.

James Poniewozik, Essay in Time, 17 January 2005

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