[lbo-talk] FW: Gore Vidal: Tim McVeigh was "a true patriot, a Constitution man"

[Joanna]

"I don't know what he's famous for anywhere, really, because I think  
those historical novels are complete works of taxidermy."

Yeah, I tried one and it just wouldn't go down.

But many of his bon mots were unforgettable. Here are a few that stuck with me.

"What we have in the U.S. is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor."

"Intellectuals want to have their asses in the twentieth century and their heads in the eighteenth."

"Nowadays everything changes except the avant garde."

Not bad really,

Joanna