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Act Quotes by John Updike
- To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
- An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
- Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.
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