A cultural divide?

"here encountering the first knot in the smooth skein of her argument." (V. Woolf, Orlando: A Biography)
"the smooth skein of his imagination had encountered the first knot:" (my fic A Member Of The Wedding)

How come quotations from Gone With The Wind, The Muppet Show or The Little Mermaid (Disney, not Andersen) are immediately recognized while a sentence lifted almost verbatim from Virginia Woolf goes unnoticed? 
Maybe I should use precise quotations. Maybe it's a US/UK issue. Feedback appreciated.

Gingerly

Title: Gingerly
Fandom: House MD
Pairing: House/Wilson
Rating: R
Warning: Kink, dub-con, BDSM, mention of ff authors and fics, grocery abuse.
Summary: House gingerly wanks with his left hand. A drabble for mmom 2011.
Word Count: 100. 50+50
Acknowledgements: Many thanks to tailkinker.au for kind permission to steal great ideas and to menolly_au for improving my English and approving my warnings.
Author's Note: This drabble has a double Australian origin: a meta fanfic by menolly_au and one of tailkinker_au's forays in oflymonddreams's semi-abusive etc. relationship.



Left handed wanking is hard, but House needs his right to spank Wilson, each stroke driving the peeled ginger deeper in his ass and making it release more burning juice. He doesn't know whether it’s the red striped butt or Wilson's increasingly loud moaning that finally brings him to orgasm.

Wilson had complained about how much they made him suffer in sick_wilson fics. House wondered what he would say about the BDSM porn with him as victim sub on fanfiction.net. And very hot porn it was, once a few key changes were made. He clicked on "subscribe" before closing the browser.