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> [The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-sutton-smith/the-opposite-of-play-isn-t-work-it-s-depression-to-play-is-to-act-out/)

Brian Sutton-Smith

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## More by Brian Sutton-Smith

> [The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-sutton-smith/the-opposite-of-play-isn-t-work-it-s-depression-to-play-is-to-act-out/)

Brian Sutton-Smith

> [Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-sutton-smith/play-is-a-subset-of-voluntary-behaviour-involving-a-selective/)

Brian Sutton-Smith

> [It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-sutton-smith/it-is-my-opinion-that-the-21st-century-will-be-the-century-of-play/)

Brian Sutton-Smith

> [We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-sutton-smith/we-study-play-because-life-is-crap-life-is-crap-and-it-s-full-of-pain/)

Brian Sutton-Smith

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