Two differences

He carefully parses through the muddied ethics of lifting elements for collage, for inspiration, and just because you forgot that you weren't supposed to.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/28/productive-seething/

In various drafts of various things, the phrase "down is easier than up" appears, because it became part of my personal dialect of English. Imagine the cussing when I reread High Wizardry for the first time in a long time and realized I stole that from Diane Duane.

She probably won't sue me for five words if I missed a spot editing it out.

As I see it, two differences distinguish this from a genA"I" "memorization": I'm using it for its meaning that I happen to find repeatedly applicable rather than extruding it at random (see also my struggle with trying to taper down "this is some bullshit" as yoinked from Resident Alien), and I'm capable of shame over being unoriginal.