That's no lie

September 29 -- Miguel de Cervantes was born in 1547. He wrote:

"Everyone is as God made him, and often a good deal worse."



September 30 -- Truman Capote (pictured) born in 1924.

"Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art." -- Gore Vidal.

Birthday of the Month - Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911.

"Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art." -- Gore Vidal.

He said Vidal had a funny first name

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago, among other books, was born on this day in 1918. He wrote:

"Freedom! To spit in the eye and in the soul of the passerby and the passenger with advertising!"

Fellow novelist Gore Vidal said of Solzhenisyn: "He is a bad novelist and a fool. The combination usually makes for great popularity in the U. S."