you can't go home again

== English == === Etymology === From the novel You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), published posthumously in 1940. Wolfe took the title from a conversation with the writer Ella Winter, who remarked to Wolfe: "Don't you know you can't go home again?" Wolfe then asked Winter for permission to use the phrase as the title of his book. === Proverb === you can't go home again Past times which are fondly remembered are irrecoverably in the past and cannot be relived. === See also ===