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Well, yes, but there are some novels and short stories that are so very thin on plot that they are considered plotless stories.

The most famous example of this is Earnest Hemingway's 'A Clean Well Lighted Place'.

The plot is: two waiters at a bar comments on one customer of their customers, and old man. One waiter is impatient for the old man to go home, the other is more sympathetic. When the old man does go home the sympathetic waiter goes to another bar to drink. Philosophizes a little the he goes home to bed.

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