@AnandWrites@winnerstakeall From M Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Man: "Benevolence is a very amiable specious quality; yet the aversion men feel to accept a right as a favour, should rather be extolled as a vestige of native dignity, than stigmatised as the odious offspring of ingratitude."
@ComtedeLe A million thanks, Monseigneur! You have made my day - and my New Year, to date - not only with your kind words for Proust's Duchess, but with your bio: "Avuncular admirer of Laure de Chevigné." Target reader for my book if ever there was one. ⚜️❤️⚜️❤️⚜️
Schedule for Dec. 10:
- Brkfst: Tell parents about surprise noontime event
- 10 am: Rehearse for award ceremony
- Noon: Get married
- 4:30 pm: Receive medal from the King
- 7:00 pm: Go to dinner with my new wife, our families, and 1,200 others
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Breaking News: The 2018 Nobel in economic science went to William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer for reshaping the understanding of economic growth
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"Success, wealth, [and] celebrity, gained and kept for private interest, are small things. ... But sacrifice for a cause greater than self-interest, and you invest your life with the eminence of that cause, [and] your self-respect is assured." #johnmcain
Ce que #Proust écrivait il y a 109 ans : "Nous nous croyons blasés sur les jolies maisons parce que tout est pareil et nous ennuie. Mais il en est de cela comme des romans, on en est fatigué jusqu'au jour où paraît un livre original qui nous rend notre fraîcheur d'impressions"
#Proust Book review of Caroline Weber’s “Proust’s Duchess.” Excerpt from paris-expat, by William C. Carter, Proust’s American biographer and scholar. @penguinrandom#proustsduchess
Thank you @decaturdaily for calling my new book, #proustsduchess , "a tour de force" & "a wonderful recreation of a marvelous, scandalous, but above all unforgettable time." 👠
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@AmberButchart @TheTudorTailor Only just seeing this now (I still don't really have the hang of Twitter)- thanks for your kind words for #queenoffashion. Fashion also features in my newest book, #proustsduchess, a biography of the 3 stylish social doyennes who ruled over Proust's #paris. I hope you'll like it!