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Maggie is married to Brick Pollitt, a former athlete and sports
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Brick,y’know I’ve been so God damn disgustingly poor all my life!- That’s the truth, Brick!
Always had to suck up to people I couldn’t stand because they had money and I was poor as Job’s turkey.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it. You’ve got to be old with money because to be old without it is just too awful, you’ve got to be one or the other, either young or with money, you can’t be old and without it.- That’s the truth, Brick…
For full monologue, refer to the script edition cited here: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Signet Books, 1983, pp. 38-39.
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