In general, I’d rather talk about other people. Gossip, or, as we gossips like to say, character analysis.Elizabeth Hardwick (quoted in David Laskin, Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 202)
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
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