# Good Neighbors and Other Strangers

- Author: [Edgar Pangborn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn.md)
- Quotes: 6
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edgar-pangborn/good-neighbors-and-other-strangers

## Quotes

> At one point early in his journal Dr. Bannerman describes himself as “a naturalist of the puttering type—I would rather sit on a log then write monographs: it pays off better.”

p. 128

> One who can define kindness only as the absence of cruelty has surely not begun to understand the nature of either.

p. 154

> Their door closed; presently she cried out in that desired pain that is brief release from trouble.

p. 41

> A crisis passed usually means another one approached.

p. 82

> She likes to talk, but her mill often shuts off suddenly, because of a quality of hers which I find good as well as rare: I mean that when she has no more to say she doesn’t go on talking.

p. 63

> What hurts us worst is to have our favorite self-deceptions stripped away.

p. 169