Sentence examples for repeat the past from inspiring English sources

As Jay Gatsby said: "Can't repeat the past?

"CAN'T repeat the past?" Jay Gatsby cried incredulously.

The essence of the words from Gatsby's most famous line, "Can't repeat the past?

They are perfectly placed to repeat the past, or to rewrite it.

The bots, it appeared, were doomed to repeat the past, because they did not remember it.

If history is written for the present, are we doomed to repeat the past?

But for many in the GOP, the temptation to repeat the past is irresistible.

"We never repeat the past, at least not in the way he was suggesting we did," Rieff writes.

Unchanging and bereft of free will, they are prisoners of memory, doomed to repeat the past again and again.

And let me repeat the past tense: following a big slump, not just when you're in it.

The paradox put me in mind of a famous line, currently ringing out hoarsely from the end of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby trailer: "Can't repeat the past?