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Maggie is married to Brick Pollitt, a former athlete and sports
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Brick, let me finish! – I know, believe me I know, that it was only Skipper that harboured even an unconscious desire for anything not perfectly pure between you two! – Now let me skip a little.
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Born poor, raised poor, expect to die poor unless I manage to get us something out of what Big Daddy leaves when he dies of cancer! But Brick?! – Skipper is dead! I’m alive! Maggie the cat is alive! I am alive, alive! I am alive!
For full monologue, refer to the script edition cited here: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Signet Books, 1983, pp. 42-43.
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