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Book cover for The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
This is the game that takes place in the mind of the player, and it is played against such obstacles as lapses in concentration, nervousness, self-doubt and self-condemnation. In short, it is played to overcome all habits of mind which ...more
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Ernest Hemingway
“You ought to dream.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Jonathan Ames
“As I followed Mr. Harrison, I picked up his salty, sweet odor—it pervaded the whole apartment actually—and I liked it. It smelled alive.”
Jonathan Ames, The Extra Man

Ernest Hemingway
“We went down the stairs to the café on the ground floor. I had discovered that was the best way to get rid of friends. Once you had a drink all you had to say was: “Well, I’ve got to get back and get off some cables,” and it was done. It is very important to discover graceful exits like that in the newspaper business, where it is such an important part of the ethics that you should never seem to be working.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Anaïs Nin
“You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.”
Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

Billy Wilder
“Everyone in the audience is an idiot, but taken together, they're a genius.”
Billy Wilder

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