“I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!”

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940

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