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Isabel Coffey
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“Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
― Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961
“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Politics
― Politics
Isabel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Isabel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Travel, and Nonfiction
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