“If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?”
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American writer 1918–1992Related quotes

“When life hands you a lemon, say "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?”
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“When life gives you lemons… choke on them and die… you stupid lemon eater.”

February 1947 The Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. 4 (1944-1947), p. 185
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As quoted in Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1898) by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, p. 289-91.