"A paradox is a truth standing on its head in order to attract attention."
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The Review of Reviews, Volume 17 (Jan-July 1898), “The Topic of the Month: The Jubilee of the Awakening of 1848" (April 1898). ("Richard Le Gallienne, who has recently been airing his ambrosial locks in the heated air of American lecture rooms, once told his audience that "a paradox was a truth standing on its head in order to attract attention."")
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Richard Le Gallienne
1899 – 1991
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866–1947) was an English man of letters, closely associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after that he lived in the US, without altering his period style. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter, by his second marriage.
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