"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."

Power Pleasure Aggression

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Anthony Powell was an English novelist best known for the twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.

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