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Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'


Emily Giffin

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EMILY DICKINSON The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes ...
EMILY DICKINSON Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive...
EMILY DICKINSON Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Ti...
EMILY DICKINSON The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocrac...
EMILY DICKINSON Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear...
EMILY DICKINSON Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTE Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
EMILY DICKINSON Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have ...
EMILY POST For Love is Immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then th...
EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you expr...
EMILY BLUNT I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people f...
EMILY BROWNING I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than ...
EMILY BROWNING The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because i...
EMILY BLUNT