Gore Vidal - I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been tau...

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I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it.

Gore Vidal

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich wollte nicht mein ganzes Leben damit verbringen, amerikanische Geschichte zu schreiben, die in den Schulen hätte unterrichtet werden sollen, aber ich sah keine andere Wahl, als mich auf mich zu nehmen. Ich könnte mir viele fröhlichere Dinge vorstellen, die ich lieber tun würde, als George Washington und Aaron Burr zu analysieren. Aber es passierte, das war meine Arbeit, also tat ich es.

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