Quiz Show (1994)
Adam Kilgour: Thomas Merton - The Monk
Quotes
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Mark Van Doren : [reciting poetry at his birthday party] Now see summer bloom upon this lee, three score rings around this tree, once green, now bare, once lush, now sere, consoled only that I am planted here...
John Van Doren : You certainly are!
Mark Van Doren : Roots thick...
Thomas Merton, The Monk : And bold...
Mark Van Doren : And deep...
John Van Doren : And doddering...
Mark Van Doren : Assuage my woes...
Bunny Wilson : And termites nibbling at my toes!
Mark Van Doren : Et tu, Bunny!
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Cornwall Cousins : Charles, is Jack Barry single?
Charles Van Doren : I think so.
Cornwall Cousins : My roommate has a huge crush on him, she wants you to introduce her.
Cornwall Cousins : What's Dave Garroway like?
Charles Van Doren : Cheap.
Cornwall Aunt : 'Cheat'?
Mark Van Doren : Wasn't I talking?
Bunny Wilson : You were, just talking, and talking, and talking...
Cornwall Cousins : Charlie's famous, like Elvis Presley!
Mark Van Doren : And like Leopold of Belgium, usurped by his son before his time!
Charles Van Doren : Oh, that makes me King Baudouin!
Mark Van Doren : Next birthday, you all get a dirty limerick.
Thomas Merton, The Monk : I certainly hope so!
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Charles Van Doren : Last week alone, I had 11 proposals of marriage!
Mark Van Doren : Perhaps you should accept one of them.
Dorothy Van Doren : [to Mark] And to think, they unleash you on those impressionable young minds.
Mark Van Doren : Well, why not? He's 33 years old, Jesus Christ had a girlfriend at 33 years old.
Dorothy Van Doren : Look how that turned out.
Thomas Merton, The Monk : And, he shared an office with His Father!
