"you can't go home again" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1982 April 18, Anna Kisselgoff, “Dance: Judson Theater Remembered”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-11-05:",
          "text": "The organizers of a surprisingly refreshing program called \"Judson Dance Theater Reconstruction\" know that you can't go home again. Instead, they have tried to re-create that home if ever so briefly—even if it was a home these same young organizers never knew.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001 June 24, George J. Church, “Jobs in an Age of Insecurity”, in Time, retrieved 2018-11-05:",
          "text": "As novelist Thomas Wolfe (1930s, not 1960s, version) declared in one of his book titles, You Can't Go Home Again—because home isn't there anymore.",
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        {
          "ref": "2009 August 12, Michael Henderson, “The Ashes: Marcus Trescothick's health is more important than England winning”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2018-11-05:",
          "text": "The Americans have a phrase for it: you can't go home again. Once you leave, that is it. […] [H]is time has come and gone, as he confessed when he retired from Test cricket three years ago. And gone means gone.",
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        "Past times which are fondly remembered are irrecoverably in the past and cannot be relived."
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          "irrecoverable"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "genie is out of the bottle"
        },
        {
          "word": "not in Kansas anymore"
        },
        {
          "word": "there's no point crying over spilt milk"
        },
        {
          "word": "there is no there there"
        },
        {
          "word": "what's done is done"
        },
        {
          "word": "yesterday is gone"
        },
        {
          "word": "you can't step in the same river twice"
        }
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        "Thomas Wolfe",
        "You Can't Go Home Again"
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  "word": "you can't go home again"
}

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  "etymology_text": "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.",
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    {
      "word": "genie is out of the bottle"
    },
    {
      "word": "not in Kansas anymore"
    },
    {
      "word": "there's no point crying over spilt milk"
    },
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          "ref": "1982 April 18, Anna Kisselgoff, “Dance: Judson Theater Remembered”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-11-05:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2009 August 12, Michael Henderson, “The Ashes: Marcus Trescothick's health is more important than England winning”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 2018-11-05:",
          "text": "The Americans have a phrase for it: you can't go home again. Once you leave, that is it. […] [H]is time has come and gone, as he confessed when he retired from Test cricket three years ago. And gone means gone.",
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