def splitQuoted(s):
    """
    Like a string split, but don't break substrings inside quotes.

    >>> splitQuoted('the "hairy monkey" likes pie')
    ['the', 'hairy monkey', 'likes', 'pie']

    Another one of those "someone must have a better solution for
    this" things.  This implementation is a VERY DUMB hack done too
    quickly.
    """
    out = []
    quot = None
    phrase = None
    for word in s.split():
        if phrase is None:
            if word and (word[0] in ("\"", "'")):
                quot = word[0]
                word = word[1:]
                phrase = []

        if phrase is None:
            out.append(word)
        else:
            if word and (word[-1] == quot):
                word = word[:-1]
                phrase.append(word)
                out.append(" ".join(phrase))
                phrase = None
            else:
                phrase.append(word)

    return out

    Like a string split, but don't break substrings inside quotes.

    >>> splitQuoted('the "hairy monkey" likes pie')
    ['the', 'hairy monkey', 'likes', 'pie']

    Another one of those "someone must have a better solution for
    this" things.  This implementation is a VERY DUMB hack done too
    quickly.
    
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