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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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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

So harshly did he caricature his native Asheville that the title of his last novel might have been a warning from its inhabitants: You Can't Go Home Again.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

You can’t go home again when it’s unrecognizable.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2021

Buried Child You can’t go home again, and you can never escape it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2019

But, the old truism remains: You can’t go home again.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2015

You can’t go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck