Extracted from infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, published by Free Press. Life On The Run Ayaan Hirsi Ali October 5, 2008. From inside the apartment, he could hear people calling him an infidel and debating whether to kill him on the spot.
Gertrude Stein, 1935. The sentence Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays. In that poem, the first Rose is the name of a person. Stein later used variations on the sentence in other writings, and A rose is a rose is a rose is among her most famous quotations, often interpreted as meaning things are what they are, a statement of the law of identity, A is A.
First published in Italy in 1980 as Il nome della rosa, William Weaverâs English translation of author Umberto Ecoâs The Name of the Rose appeared in the United States in 1983, and in England in 1984. The Name of the Rose was made into a film in 1986, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Sean Connery as William of Baskerville, Christian Slater as Adso of Melk, and F. Murray Abraham as Bernard Gui.