“Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.”

— Romain Gary , book Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable

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Romain Gary 16

French writer and diplomat 1914–1980

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer

The Corruptions Of the Physical Body, p. 5
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.”

Robert Morley (1908–1992) English actor

Explaining why he never tried to lose weight.
Toledo Blade, Aug 20, 1978 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19780820&id=UDBPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fgIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6371,746427

“Sometimes you die sometimes you don’t.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“The largest army will founder if its men are less willing to die than to win.”

David Gemmell book Legend

Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 9
Context: How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's fart. It comes down to men who are willing. The largest army will founder if its men are less willing to die than to win.