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proverb
Past times which are fondly remembered are irrecoverably in the past and cannot be relived.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
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.
