“For all the wine-tasting and brandy snifters and expensive cellars, it’s essentially no different from sniffing petrol or chroming. It’s just dressed up,’ he said. ‘Can you imagine businessmen with plastic bags spraying paint and saying, “Why, yes, it’s a… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image
“Butch says that the art of ‘becoming a chameleon’ — blending into your contacts’ environment — is the key to establishing rapport and earning… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image
“I realise something. My ‘fuck it, I just want to get smashed’ moments are usually about boredom and pleasure-seeking. When I get drunk, it’s… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image
“Apart from Lucy and Shanan, the only person I know today is my other former flatmate, Oliver. At dinner, I’m seated next to him,… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image
“What a monumental waste of time that now seems, to spend so much of life hung-over, sleeping away my weekends and cowering under the… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image
“Gripping the microphone, my eyes half closed under the lights, I think of my 413 days without alcohol. And I think of Jude’s short… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image
“I walk away feeling that something’s not quite right. On the tram home, I realise why: this is completely alien to me because I’ve… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image
“For all the wine-tasting and brandy snifters and expensive cellars, it’s essentially no different from sniffing petrol or chroming. It’s just dressed up,’ he… — Jill Stark Copy Share Image