You can't go home again
by Thomas Wolfe · first published 1940
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…is saying great things and I don't need to repeat them, so I'll mention something different that helped me. That was literature. Books and plays like "Notes From The Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe, "Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill and "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder. What you are feeling is not unique and it will pass, so don't think you will feel this way forever…
on “Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?” ↗…ever break out of this well-ordered world." Apparently his copy of Return of the King had all the pages after Aragorn's coronation torn out? I wouldn't go as far as to say something along the lines of "you can't go home again" is the main theme of the book, but it's a pretty strong one (and based on Tolkien's experience in and after WWI). "Nothing ever changes" is about the opposite of what happens.
on “Interview with Michael Moorcock” ↗