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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

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

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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.

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Mrs. Aline Bernstein, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again, did have a husband, although the biography skips by him in one hurried sentence.

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

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