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I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.
— John Dufresne
Mom always said that confidence is a great leadership tool.
— Jerilyn Dufresne
A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?
— John Dufresne
The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.
— John Dufresne
The most important thing with turkey is to let it rest - most people don't let it rest long enough. It will get juicier the longer you let it rest.
— Wylie Dufresne
There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.
— Wylie Dufresne
There will never be a right or wrong way to cook something, but there will always be a more informed way.
— Wylie Dufresne
Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
— John Dufresne
I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.
— John Dufresne
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.
— John Dufresne
I learned to love stories by listening to them.
— John Dufresne
I write with a fountain pen. And then revise word by word and line by line so that the first draft of a scene is usually the tenth or so draft.
— John Dufresne
Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.
— Wylie Dufresne
I can fry hollandaise, I can fry ketchup, I can fry mustard.
— Wylie Dufresne
The spirit of pickling is one of adventure and fun.
— Wylie Dufresne
It was then that I had a choice. I could cry and lay down and die, or I could use what I had learned from him to keep going and fully live.
— Aimee DuFresne
Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.
— Wylie Dufresne
If you think about it, fiction is nothing more than gossip about the people you've made up.
— John Dufresne
I would like to, at some point, do a cookbook.
— Wylie Dufresne
People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.
— Wylie Dufresne
At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.
— John Dufresne
Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux.
— Wylie Dufresne
I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.
— John Dufresne
The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.
— Wylie Dufresne
Place is character. And all writing is regional.
— John Dufresne
Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on,
that person should be the president. — Wylie Dufresne
that person should be the president. — Wylie Dufresne
Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.
— John Dufresne
My mother made the best scrambled eggs, super-loose and soft.
— Wylie Dufresne
I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.
— Wylie Dufresne
I have no interest in vegetarians whatsoever. Zero. Less than zero.
— Wylie Dufresne
We all sleep with the corpses of our dead lovers.
— John Dufresne
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.
— John Dufresne
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
— Vasily Smyslov
Hollandaise, I would like to pour over my head and just rub all over myself. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs.
— Wylie Dufresne
I should be scared, but I am far too excited to let in any fear.
— Aimee DuFresne
You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.
— John Dufresne
When ramps are in season, we pickle a bunch of ramps and fold that into soup. Pickled pearl onions are great chopped up or pureed.
— Wylie Dufresne
Judi, a person's worth isn't measured by her utility. We're not tools. We're here to think. To feel. To be good to each other
— John Dufresne
Memory is a rascal.
— John Dufresne
I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.
— Wylie Dufresne
I don't think of eggs as being fundamental to the flavor of mayonnaise, but they are to Hollandaise.
— Wylie Dufresne
Eggs are one of my all-time favorite foods, and making the over-easy egg is a test of skill.
— Wylie Dufresne
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
— John Dufresne
A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.
— John Dufresne
Not having a New York culinary tradition, far from being limiting, it's an opportunity to create freely.
— Wylie Dufresne
I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.
— John Dufresne
I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.
— John Dufresne
Extremely ripe things are not ideal for pickling. If you pour a hot liquid over super ripe strawberries, you're going to have strawberry soup.
— Wylie Dufresne
Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
— John Dufresne
Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.
— John Dufresne
Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.
— John Dufresne
American cheese is the perfect soft taco.
— Wylie Dufresne
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.
— John Dufresne