“The really important kind of freedom involes attention and awareness & discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people. And to sacrifice for them, over & over in a myriad of petty little unsexy ways, every day.” David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace
American writer

David Foster Wallace was an American writer and university instructor of English and creative writing. His novel Infinite Jest was listed by Time magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
Born: February 21, 1962, Ithaca, New York, United States
Died: September 12, 2008, Claremont, California, United States
Spouse: Karen L. Green (m. 2004–2008)
Movies: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Quotes
Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being.
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
The interesting thing is why we’re so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.