# Quote — Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

> The whole of life is just like watching a click, he thought. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it all out yourself from the clues.

- Author: [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md)
- Book: [Moving Pictures](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/moving-pictures.md)
- Page: 238
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/moving-pictures/the-whole-of-life

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> She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing. (p. 283)

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> She wasn't certain what the future held, but coffee would be involved if she had any say in the matter. (p. 310)

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> The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. (p. 193)

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