The Well-Played Game Quotes

“On the one hand we have the playing mind—innovative, magical, boundless. On the other is the gaming mind—concentrated, determined, intelligent. And on the hand that holds them both together we have the notion of playing well.”
― Bernard De Koven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy

“It is neither work nor play, purpose nor purposelessness that satisfies us. It is the dance between.”
― Bernard De Koven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy

“Now, when you play this game, even though you’ve never played it with me before, you’re playing to get even—not with me but with what I represent to you, all those terrible people who cheated you out of your right to win. Then”
― Bernard De Koven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy

“Once again we return to the heart-warming realization that games are not life. Games are throwaway items. We play them only because we feel like playing them. They don't mean anything for real, and neither does quitting them.”
― Bernie DeKoven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy

“This is the most solid stuff we are able to find—the things we enjoy doing. When we look for what we don’t enjoy, we are tangled in a web of infinite possibilities. We have no center to refer back to. There’s too much to point to—a rule, the way somebody looked at us, the color of the marbles, the ground, the air. But”
― Bernard De Koven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy

“to experience that excellence again, you must admit the possibility that you’re going to need to find another game, or something that isn’t a game at all; that the game is, in fact, over and that it’s time for the search for yet something else. We”
― Bernard De Koven, The Well-Played Game: A Player's Philosophy