"And this isn't vanity or ambition. Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try. It piles the debt it poisons him, and if he tries to make payments the debt only increase, and the quality of his gift is the measure of the man. Doc's greatest talent had been his sense of paying as he went. The finish line had meant nothing to him except that he wanted to crowd more living into the stretch."
'No man there knows whether he can take it, knows whether he will run away or stick, or lose his nerves and go to pieces or will be a good soldier.'
J. Steinbeck
'Tomorrow at this time these men, those who are living, will be different. They will know then what they can't know tonight. They will know how they will face fire.'