“it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
“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, book You Can't Go Home Again
Book VI, Ch. 44: The Way of No Return
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
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