Nobody in this land, certainly no Christian, can accept hating on a full-time basis; it is apt to reflect back on the hater. - Mary McCarthy

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it. Conscience doth make cowards of us all, eh mamma mia? If you start an argument with yourself, that makes two people at least, and when you have two people, one of them starts appeasing the other.

[A]ll moral values, to the analyst, were just rationalizations: ego massage.

To allude negligently to Kafka, Yeats, Proust, Stendhal, or St. John of the Cross in a tone of of-course-you-know-them is canonical for Mademoiselle contributors, whatever the topic in hand.