Activity 3

Discuss one of the quotations by Mark Twain, who apart from being a writer was also in his time a popular public speaker.

1. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
   (Quotation from Mark Twain’s Notebook (published posthumously 1935), from powerofpublish.com)
   
   
2. “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
   (Rudyard Kipling, An Interview with Mark Twain, From sea to sea, letters of travel, 1899, from powerofpublish.com)
   
   
3. “It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
   (“Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.76 St. Martin’s Press, 2015, from azquotes.com)