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You Can't Go Home Again

noun

  1. a novel (1940) by Thomas Wolfe.



You can't go home again

  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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“Who says you can’t go home again?”

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You can’t go home again, wrote Thomas Wolfe, but F. Scott Fitzgerald said you can repeat the past — of course you can.

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So much has changed, and maybe you can’t go home again.

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After all, you can’t go home again.

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Maybe you can’t go home again, as the author Thomas Wolfe said.

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