Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 21, 1962 - September 12, 2008
Birthday: February 21
Death: September 12
Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.
source: David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.66, Hachette UK
topic: Lonely, Self, Order, Stating The Obvious, Self Centered People