I spent a hell of a lot of what I made on sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll. The rest – as the footballer Georgie Best joked just before he died recently – I wasted. It’s the usual old story. But whores have to make a living and so do purveyors of French wine and single malt whisky. (To be serious for a moment, some of the smartest, nicest people I ever met in my life were whores. But only one of them, out of the hundreds I have known, ever got rich. A Saudi Prince picked her up in a nightclub. The rest is history. But she was one in a million. Whoring is a particularly dangerous and ineffective
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