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You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, … back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame … back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time -- back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

— Thomas Wolfe You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

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His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.

You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

The old church, with its sharp steeple, rotted slowly, decently, prosperously, like a good man's wife.

Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.

You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

Go, seeker, if you will, throughout the land and you will find us burning in the night.

You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

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