If you choose to spend an hour every day tinkering with your Facebook profile, or if you don’t see any difference between reading Jane Austen on a Kindle and reading her on a printed page, or if you think Grand Theft Auto IV is the greatest Gesamtkunstwerk since Wagner, I’m very happy for you, as long as you keep it to yourself. Jonathan Franzen
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When the author, David Brooks, published his essay in The New York Times, many people were disappointed that he did not believe that people should be forced to consume art that they don't like. However, when you read his essay, you discover that he actually does not care whether you are forcing yourself to read something that you don't like. It's not about what you are doing with your time. It's about how much joy or pain you are adding to the world. That is what matters in life.

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