Apparently, he learned about wine and spirits while serving as a Red Cross ambulance driver during the WWI and the quote must have been likely lifted from A Movable Feast, his memoir of younger days in Paris, because it is pleasant. He later hardened into a contentious and combative macho troll as his curt reply to Fitzgerald’s “the very rich… are different from you and me…”, illustrates, “… they have more money.” It irked him that he had to half-hide his newly acquired pleasure back in his hometown, prompting him to describe Oak Park, Il as where “the streets are wide and minds are narrow.”

And oh, speaking of wines and ambulances, in the same war, just one of the outstanding pompous asses of history, Lord Kitchener, used ambulances for transporting wine instead of the wounded on top of other equally outrageous tactical blunders prompting his countrymen to suspect God was on their side when Kitchener drowned halfway through the war.