You Can't Go Home Again

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noun

a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.

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Words nearby You Can't Go Home Again

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How to use You Can't Go Home Again in a sentence

That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.
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So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.
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Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.
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Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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And that was that if he and his wife were to ever live together again and be happy, the family were to be kept out of it.
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Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"
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"Better so," was the Senora's sole reply; and she fell again into still deeper, more perplexed thought about the hidden treasure.
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Before the outlaw can comply with this small request the horn sounds again.
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Cultural definitions for You Can't Go Home Again

You can't go home again

You can't recover the past. This saying is the title of a novel by the twentieth-century American author Thomas Wolfe.