/lit/ - Literature

At what point does it become something brazen and lazy that risks souring people's opinions of your writing if/when it is discovered? How much can you push the envelope?

I often come across single sentences (a way of describing a character's appearance for example) or metaphors or sentiments that I want to steal. If I ever think about stealing something word for word (never more than a sentence or two at one time) I try to do it while using the sentence in a different context without similarities between characters or plots. Is this wrong? How much of your work needs to be original? Does it count as a literary allusion to a previous text if there really was no other purpose to the stealing than that you liked that writers turn of phrase and wanted to use it, and perhaps you respect their work?

For instance I have a short story where I have taken two sentences from Eugene O'Neill's "Long Days Journey Into Night" and put them into the mouth of one of my characters, though they express a similar viewpoint, the characters are very different and the plot of the story and O'Neill's play do not have notable similarities. Would this be frowned upon?

In the end of course I most likely will never be good enough for my plagiarism to matter but it still makes me uneasy.

What do you guys think about my example and plagiarism in general?

Marketa Lazarová was kino

To feel at home with the world

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Aesthetica by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
Philosophical Thoughts by Denis Diderot
The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Laocoon by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The Inhuman by Jean-François Lyotard
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
History of Beauty by Umberto Eco
Aesthetic Ideology by Paul de Man
Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Art of Sculpture by Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Corpus by Jean-Luc Nancy
“The Origin of the Work of Art” by Martin Heidegger
“Of the Passions,” “Of Tragedy,” “Of the Standard of Taste,” from Four Dissertations by David Hume
Art as Experience by John Dewey
The Romantic Manifesto Ayn Rand

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Tartu, Estonia
"The metamorphisis" by Kafka

Can a film be as meaningful as a work of literature? If so, which ones?

>>11854644
What universities do you people go to? I went to a very left wing Canadian university as a straight white male and had no issues at all. The professor that taught me Ethics was a traditional Catholic.

>>11240014
it's time to stop posting anon

>>10258123
She's cute. I like that movie.