David Foster Wallace Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 21, 1962 - September 12, 2008
Birthday: February 21
Death: September 12
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.
topic: Children, Loneliness, Divorce, Solipsism, Prominent, Anomie, Impassioned
