You Can't Go Back Home To Your Family-- To A Young Man's Dream Of Fame And Glory To The Country Cottage Away From Strife And Conflict To The Father You Have Lost To The Old Forms And Systems Of Things Which Seems Everlasting But Are Changing All The Time.

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You can't go back home to your family--
to a young man's dream of fame and glory
to the country cottage away from strife and conflict
to the father you have lost
to the old forms and systems of things which seems
everlasting but are changing all the time.
-- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) "You Can't Go Home Again" (1940)

You can go home again - you just can't stay there. -- Murphy's Clarification of Thomas Wolfe's Law
You *can* go home again. Just type "cd ~".
Marge, there's just too much pressure, what with my job, the kids, traffic snarls, political strife at home and abroad.
But I promise you, the second all of those things go away, we'll have sex....
Don't forget about the importance of the family. It begins with the family.
We're not going to redefine the family. Everybody knows the definition of the family....
You can go home now, I can finish this without you.
You can't go home again, unless you set $HOME.
I'd love to go out with you, but I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture.

You Can't Go Back Home To Your Family-- To A Young Man's Dream Of Fame And Glory To The Country Cottage Away From Strife And Conflict To The Father You Have Lost To The Old Forms And Systems Of Things Which Seems Everlasting But Are Changing All The Time.

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