Consolation Prize Quotes

• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Doubt, Inspirational Art

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• The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

  Norman Mailer

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Beautiful

  Norman Mailer (1973). “Marilyn: A Biography”, New York : Grosset & Dunlap

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• I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

  David Nicholls

  Thinking, Resorts, Consolation

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• Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Consolation, Prize

  "Q&A | Portland author Jon Raymond". Interview with Michael Upchurch, www.seattletimes.com. January 14, 2009.

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• Yet the women's misery is socually invisible. Despite our education and accomplishments, we are expected to keep our mouths shut and accept our infertility treatments as consolation prize. Our jobs are supposed to be our highest priority. We are expected to overlook the connection between our disappointment, the impossible ideology of equality, and the contraception that makes that ideology appear to be possible.

  Jennifer Morse

  Jobs, Disappointment, Accomplishment

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• Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Kindness, Simple, What Matters

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• It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Dream, Athlete, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Fiction, Stories, World

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

  Emo Philips

  Children, Wife, Married

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand. "Ah, yes, thank you, Floote." "There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize. "I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband." "I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you." Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Mean, Hands

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• I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this is the end in and of itself - then you've been suckered in. Because those are the consolation prizes, if you're not careful, for selling yourself out, or letting the best of yourself slip away.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Believe, Fall

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• Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are killed can't complain, the wounded would have given far more than that to escape as they have, and the unwounded regard the money as a consolation prize for still being here.

  Robert Graves

  War, Complaining, Survivor

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