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• You Can't Go Home Again
  You Can't Go Home Again

  noun

  a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.
• 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.

You Can't Go Home Again

American  

noun

1. a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.

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You can't go home again Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

It is to be hoped that Glaze-brook's next book is not titled You Can't Go Home Again.

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You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after George's return.

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His autobiographical novel Look Homeward, Angel was a sensation, and the title of his third book, You Can't Go Home Again, became a rallying cry.

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Room 829, where he wrote You Can't Go Home Again, was reserved.

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He entertained his friends with it, found it furiously lampooned as "Piggy Logan's Circus" in Thomas Wolfe's novel You Can't Go Home Again.

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