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Enid Starkie

  • “Unhurt people are not much good in the world.”

    • Enid Starkie,
    • in Joanna Richardson, Enid Starkie ()

  • “... one finds a way of building one's pain into the foundations of one's life so that it becomes a strength and not a cause of destruction.”

    • Enid Starkie,
    • 1941, in Joanna Richardson, Enid Starkie ()

Enid Starkie, Irish-born English writer, educator, scholar of French literature

(1897 - 1970)

Full name: Enid Mary Starkie.