Quinn Fernandez
4 min readNov 23, 2022

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A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME…

How A Name Really Can Influence Who We Become.

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,

by any other name, would smell as sweet.”

Romeo and Juliet

Act 2 scene 2

William Shakespeare



What is in a name?

That is an excellent question.

What is in a name, William?

Or should I call you Willy…Billy perhaps?

The simple fact that the name William Shakespeare flows from the tongue like fine honey, and makes most of us listen

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Quinn Fernandez

I am a purist "method" writer. My life's goal is to create, and then to become, my own hero, in classic Nietzschean fashion. I hold a B.A. in Creative Writing.