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That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.
That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.
Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
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- Anthony Powell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1952 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Anthony Powell: life dates 1905 to 2000. Wikidata Q573813, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q573813 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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