"The limit of man's knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination." (Charles Darwin, "Journal of Researches Into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle: Under the Command of Captain FitzRoy, R. N., from 1832-6", 1836)
"There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes." (Henry DThoreau," Summer", 1894)
"Some dreams I have had in this cottage seem to give strength to the opinion that there is a psychic memory attached to certain neighbourhoods." (John M Synge, "The Aran Islands", 1907)
"Mistakes live in the neighborhood of truth and therefore delude us." (Rabindranath Tagore, "Fireflies", 1928)
"Truth is a flower in whose neighborhood others must wither." (Edward M Forster, "Albinger Harvest", 1936)
"The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood." (Lyndon B. Johnson [in "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson: 1963–64", 1960s)
"What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what ‘the stars foretell,’ avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable ‘verdict of history', - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue. Get the facts!" (Robert A Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love", 1973)
"What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?" (Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood", 1987)
"The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive." (Jan Tschichold, "The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design", 1991)
"Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces." (Dean Koontz, "Three Complete Novels", 1994)
"Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies - at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget." (Sara Gran, "City of the Dead: A Claire DeWitt Mystery", 2011)
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